I think that octopus merge (merge with more than two parents/legs) is feature which is unique to git (isn't it?). Do you remember perhaps why it was introduced? What does it give, beside making it difficult to convert git repositories using this feature to others SCMs, for example for comparison: http://vcscompare.blogspot.com/2008/05/meet-candidates.html TIA -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html