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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.

  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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