> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:57:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > just to demonstrate it, i tried today to do an octopus merge of 87 topic
> > branches:
> >
> > git-merge build checkme core/checkme core/debugobjects core/futex-64bit
> > core/iter-div core/kill-the-BKL core/locking core/misc core/percpu
> > core/printk core/rcu core/rodata core/softirq core/softlockup
> > core/stacktrace core/topology core/urgent cpus4096 genirq kmemcheck
> > kmemcheck2 mm/xen out-of-tree pci-for-jesse safe-poison-pointers sched
> > sched-devel scratch stackprotector timers/clockevents timers/hpet
> > timers/hrtimers timers/nohz timers/posixtimers tip tracing/ftrace
> > tracing/ftrace-mergefixups tracing/immediates tracing/markers
> > tracing/mmiotrace tracing/mmiotrace-mergefixups tracing/nmisafe
> > tracing/sched_markers tracing/stopmachine-allcpus tracing/sysprof
> > tracing/textedit x86/apic x86/apm x86/bitops x86/build x86/checkme
> > x86/cleanups x86/cpa x86/cpu x86/defconfig x86/delay x86/gart x86/i8259
> > x86/idle x86/intel x86/irq x86/irqstats x86/kconfig x86/ldt x86/mce
> > x86/memtest x86/mmio x86/mpparse x86/nmi x86/numa x86/numa-fixes x86/pat
> > x86/pebs x86/ptemask x86/resumetrace x86/scratch x86/setup x86/smpboot
> > x86/threadinfo x86/timers x86/urgent x86/urgent-undo-ioapic x86/uv
> > x86/vdso x86/xen x86/xsave
> >
> > it failed miserably:
> >
> > warning: ignoring 066519068ad2fbe98c7f45552b1f592903a9c8c8; cannot
> > handle more than 25 refs
>
> The upcoming builtin-merge won't have this problem. I have added a
> testcase for this in my working branch:
>
>
http://repo.or.cz/w/git/vmiklos.git?a=commit;h=7eef40b3cd772692c6eb7520686300533f35f10...
