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Re: Is my repository broken?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 8, 2008, 22:13 UTC
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Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:
> ...  However - will having commits with more than 16
> parents break things for un-modified git?

Offhand, 82d853d (builtin-blame.c: allow more than 16 parents, 2008-04-03) comes to mind. Also I would not be surprised if Porcelain scripts on the periphery had trouble with commits with duplicated parents and such esotericos, though.

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