From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:42:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] rebase -r: support octopus merges
Message-ID: <8dbaefe4-778e-1e83-4beb-0261699cc483@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlgagzah1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Am 12.07.2018 um 18:26 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> A much more meaningful measure would be: how many octopus merge commits
>> have been pushed to GitHub in the past two weeks. I don't think I have the
>> technical means to answer that question, though.
> 
> It does not mean that misusing a feature is a good thing and should
> be encouraged if many misguided people do so.

Just recently I had to rebuild the version of git-gui that comes with 
Git 2.18.0 before it was released:

https://github.com/j6t/git-gui-ng/commit/f07ae1d7f07b036d78a3d4706e6cb4102e623fb3

I think that an octopus merge is the right tool for the task. Am I 
misguided?

-- Hannes