On Tue, 3 June 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Actually, it's trivial to convert to other SCM's, although I guess the >> conversion tools haven't really tried. You can always turn it into a >> series of multiple merges. Yes, you lose information, but it's not like >> you lose a huge amount. > > One thing to worry about is what tree object you would give to each of > these "artificially split" merge commits, though. There shouldn't be, I think, a problem if octopus merge was done using 'octopus' merge strategy, which requires IIRC tree-level (trivial) merge. But true, it is a complication, unless we fake history more, and always use result for octopus merge as a tree. -- 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
