Re: More gitweb queries..

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 27, 2005, 20:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7voeawwh5x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271248450.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> For example, for somebody like LT> Jeff, who maintains 50 different branches, and merges 5 of them to send LT> them to me, an octopus merge in many ways is much more intuitive: it LT> really says "I took these five branches and combined them", while a LT> series of four regular merges just gets messy.

This really is a good use case for an Octopus. I hope Jeff is reading this thread.

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