From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:53:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vskvv2bux.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806030932.03051.jnareb@gmail.com> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:32:02 +0200")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> [*1*] I assume that this kind of merge is called 'octopus' because it
> has more than two "legs" (parents), and not for example because
> first such merge had 8 parents?
The first one ever was actually a pentapus, 211232b (Octopus merge of the
following five patches., 2005-05-05).
"gitk 211232b" was a beautiful sight back then, and it still is. The
history was much simpler back then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 1:14 Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful? Jakub Narebski
2008-06-03 2:05 ` 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 [this message]
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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