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Re: [PATCH 0/3] rebase -r: support octopus merges

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 11, 2018, 17:35 UTC
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"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

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> The `--rebase-merges` option of `git rebase` generates todo lists that include the merge commits that are to be rebased.
>
> To keep things simpler to review, I decided to support only regular, 2-parent merge commits first.
>
> With this patch series, support is extended to cover also octopus merges.
;-)

To be honest, I am not sure if there still are people who use octopus (even though I freely admit that I am guilty of inventing the term and the mechanism), given its downsides, primary one of which is that it makes bisection less efficient.

Nevertheless, this *is* the right thing to do from feature completeness point of view. Thanks for following it through.

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>
> Johannes Schindelin (3):
>   merge: allow reading the merge commit message from a file
>   rebase --rebase-merges: add support for octopus merges
>   rebase --rebase-merges: adjust man page for octopus support
>
>  Documentation/git-merge.txt  |  10 ++-
>  Documentation/git-rebase.txt |   7 +-
>  builtin/merge.c              |  32 +++++++
>  sequencer.c                  | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh     |  34 +++++++
>  5 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: e3331758f12da22f4103eec7efe1b5304a9be5e9
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-8%2Fdscho%2Fsequencer-and-octopus-merges-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-8/dscho/sequencer-and-octopus-merges-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/8
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Message 14 of 20 in “rebase -r: support octopus merges”
  1. 0/3 rebase -r: support octopus mergesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jul 11, 2018
  2. 2/3 rebase --rebase-merges: add support for octopus mergesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 21, 2017
  3. Eric SunshineJul 11, 2018
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2018
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2018
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2018
  7. 1/3 merge: allow reading the merge commit message from a fileJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 22, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2018
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2018
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2018
  11. 3/3 rebase --rebase-merges: adjust man page for octopus supportJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 9, 2018
  12. Elijah NewrenJul 11, 2018
  13. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2018
  14. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2018
  15. Stefan BellerJul 11, 2018
  16. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2018
  17. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2018
  18. Johannes SixtJul 13, 2018
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2018
  20. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2018

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