From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:29:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806021845210.3473@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Actually, it's trivial to convert to other SCM's, although I guess the 
> conversion tools haven't really tried. You can always turn it into a 
> series of multiple merges. Yes, you lose information, but it's not like 
> you lose a huge amount.

One thing to worry about is what tree object you would give to each of
these "artificially split" merge commits, though.