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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:14:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806030314.03252.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)

I think that octopus merge (merge with more than two parents/legs) is 
feature which is unique to git (isn't it?).  Do you remember perhaps 
why it was introduced?  What does it give, beside making it difficult 
to convert git repositories using this feature to others SCMs, for 
example for comparison:
  http://vcscompare.blogspot.com/2008/05/meet-candidates.html

TIA
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

             reply	other threads:[~2008-06-03  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-03  1:14 Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-06-03  2:05 ` Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful? Linus Torvalds
2008-06-03  3:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03  5:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03  5:28       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-03  5:42         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03  8:31           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-03 10:40       ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-06-03 19:30         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03 20:39           ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-06-03 22:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03 23:10               ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-06-04  0:35                 ` Jeff King
2008-06-04  1:02                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03 14:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-03 23:11       ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-04  0:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03  4:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03  6:39     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-03  7:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03  7:32   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-03  7:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03 19:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-03 20:27       ` Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?) Jakub Narebski
2008-06-03 20:33         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-03 23:59           ` Johan Herland
2008-06-03  2:16 ` Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful? Daniel Villeneuve
2008-06-03 10:06 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-06-03 11:27   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-03 11:53     ` Matthieu Moy

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