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Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 3, 2008, 07:53 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> [*1*] I assume that this kind of merge is called 'octopus' because it
>       has more than two "legs" (parents), and not for example because
>       first such merge had 8 parents?

The first one ever was actually a pentapus, 211232b (Octopus merge of the following five patches., 2005-05-05).

"gitk 211232b" was a beautiful sight back then, and it still is. The history was much simpler back then.

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