Re: Can git change?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2021, 02:27 UTC
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Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> writes:

> This is probably quite off topic for the thread, but I'm curious why
> you think it was a bad idea to have octopus merges in git.git's
> history (there seem to be 37 of them).

Octoupi in our history, at least the older ones, solve no real life problem; it only gives us "now we have something cool-looking that other people's version control systems never had", which is of dubious value.

And their presense makes bisection less efficient than it could be around them, which is a real downside.