Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:

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> So how many parents can a commit have, exactly? Is there a hard limit
> somewhere, or just a point beyond which some git tools will start
> behaving strangely?

There is no hard limit at the data structure level.

git-commit-tree has a hard limit of accepting 16 parents.  git-blame has
the same 16-parent limit while following the history (but the one in
'next' has lifted the latter limitation).

But that is purely academic.  Anybody who does an octopus with more than 8
legs should get his head examined ;-).

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