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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@...>
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Subject: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?
Date: Monday, June 2, 2008 - 9:14 pm

I think that octopus merge (merge with more than two parents/legs) is 
feature which is unique to git (isn't it?).  Do you remember perhaps 
why it was introduced?  What does it give, beside making it difficult 
to convert git repositories using this feature to others SCMs, for 
example for comparison:
  http://vcscompare.blogspot.com/2008/05/meet-candidates.html

TIA
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Jun 2, 9:14 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Jun 3, 6:06 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Jakub Narebski, (Tue Jun 3, 7:27 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Jun 3, 7:53 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Daniel Villeneuve, (Mon Jun 2, 10:16 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jun 2, 10:05 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Jakub Narebski, (Tue Jun 3, 3:32 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jun 3, 3:54 pm)
Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, ..., Jakub Narebski, (Tue Jun 3, 4:27 pm)
Re: Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to g..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Jun 3, 4:33 pm)
Re: Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to g..., Johan Herland, (Tue Jun 3, 7:59 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 3:53 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 12:29 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Jakub Narebski, (Tue Jun 3, 2:39 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 3:11 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Mon Jun 2, 11:56 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jun 3, 10:40 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Miklos Vajna, (Tue Jun 3, 7:11 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 8:33 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 1:17 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, SZEDER , (Tue Jun 3, 6:40 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 3:30 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, SZEDER , (Tue Jun 3, 4:39 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 6:08 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, SZEDER , (Tue Jun 3, 7:10 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 9:02 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Jeff King, (Tue Jun 3, 8:35 pm)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Jun 3, 1:28 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jun 3, 1:42 am)
Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?, Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Jun 3, 4:31 am)