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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	"Patricia B. C." <pati.camsky@gmail.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can git change?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:27:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh7n85qwd.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiSa6gEJ8ezVLhHf+TkGpqvEwvb8HhqtU3ETKiopjLQj6E_QQ@mail.gmail.com> (Martin von Zweigbergk's message of "Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:43:53 -1000")

Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> writes:

> This is probably quite off topic for the thread, but I'm curious why
> you think it was a bad idea to have octopus merges in git.git's
> history (there seem to be 37 of them).

Octoupi in our history, at least the older ones, solve no real life
problem; it only gives us "now we have something cool-looking that
other people's version control systems never had", which is of
dubious value.

And their presense makes bisection less efficient than it could be
around them, which is a real downside.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-23  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 12:59 Can git change? Patricia B. C.
2021-01-22 13:31 ` Christian Couder
2021-01-22 18:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-22 22:43     ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2021-01-23  2:27       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-01-23 12:56         ` RES: " Patricia B. C.
2021-01-25 16:28           ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-01-26  1:58             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-26 12:32               ` Patricia B. C.
2021-03-09 14:54               ` Daniel Gruesso
     [not found]             ` <CAFdpPnBG==5L6hwH6h2JTFtYVQqLZUcCi4+wzL_cpKKg_X3yoA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-10 21:03               ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-10 21:39                 ` Junio C Hamano

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