Re: [PATCH 0/3] rebase -r: support octopus merges
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Jul 16, 2018, 17:56 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
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> 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?
It could be used and it is the right tool are two different things, I would think.