Hi Stefan, On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:35 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > To be honest, I am not sure if there still are people who use > > octopus > > The latest merge with more than 2 parents in linux.git is df958569dbaa > (Merge branches 'acpi-tables' and 'acpica', 2018-07-05), although > looking through the log of octopusses I get the impression that mostly > Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> is really keen on these. > :-) IMO core Git contributors seriously need to forget about using the Linux kernel repository as the gold standard when looking how Git is used. Git is used in *so many* different scenarios, and both in terms of commits/day as well as overall repository size *and* development speed, Linux is not even in the "smack down the middle" category. Compared to what is being done with Git on a daily basis, the Linux kernel repository (and project structure) is relatively small. 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. In any case, the Git project is run in such a way that even having a feature used even by just single user whose name happens to be Andrew Morton declares that feature off-limits for deprecation. When applying this context to `--rebase-merges` and Octopus merges, even a single user would be sufficient for us to support that feature. And I am sure that there are more than just a dozen users of this feature. Ciao, Dscho
