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>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT>    For example, for somebody like 
LT>    Jeff, who maintains 50 different branches, and merges 5 of them to send 
LT>    them to me, an octopus merge in many ways is much more intuitive: it 
LT>    really says "I took these five branches and combined them", while a 
LT>    series of four regular merges just gets messy.

This really is a good use case for an Octopus.  I hope Jeff is
reading this thread.