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Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:

> ...  However - will having commits with more than 16
> parents break things for un-modified git?

Offhand, 82d853d (builtin-blame.c: allow more than 16 parents, 2008-04-03)
comes to mind.  Also I would not be surprised if Porcelain scripts on the
periphery had trouble with commits with duplicated parents and such
esotericos, though.