From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:56:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] rebase -r: support octopus merges
Message-ID: <xmqq1sc3ukry.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <8dbaefe4-778e-1e83-4beb-0261699cc483@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> 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.