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Tue, 3 Feb 2026 18:33:36 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" Cc: "Justin Tobler" , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] builtin/repo: find commit with most parents In-Reply-To: (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:14:07 +0100") References: <20260203221758.1164434-1-jltobler@gmail.com> <20260203221758.1164434-5-jltobler@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:33:35 -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 "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > By the way: why did this project stop doing 3+ parent merges? If you mean Git, the primary reason is because I do not see much value in Octopus merges, which is very hostile to bisection. It was "interesting" to view them in gitk while the tool was young and nobody has seen such a structure, but curiosity rapidly wanes ;-).