Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
