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Tue, 3 Feb 2026 17:48:58 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Justin Tobler Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] builtin/repo: find commit with most parents In-Reply-To: <20260203221758.1164434-5-jltobler@gmail.com> (Justin Tobler's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2026 16:17:57 -0600") References: <20260203221758.1164434-1-jltobler@gmail.com> <20260203221758.1164434-5-jltobler@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:48:57 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Justin Tobler writes: > Complex merge events may produce an octopus merge where the resulting > merge commit has more than two parents. While iterating through objects > in the repository for git-repo-structure, identify the commit with the > most parents and display it in the output. Does the size of octopus have anything more than a curiosity value? The opposite, the commit with most direct children, might be even more interesting, but that may be just me.