From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:01:33 GMT
Subject: Re: What is the scenario for a commit with 3 or more parents
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 15:12, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Compared to that downside, it is not worth to use an Octopus, only to have
>> a smaller number of merge commits and a cool-looking lantern-shaped merge
>> commit in the history.
>
> Ok, do we have _that_ documented anywhere?

Outside the list archive, I don't think so.