Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:40:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Right. But git shouldn't do duplicate parents. I agree it's a mis-use of 
>> git merge, but either we should have errored out or we should have pruned 
>> the parents.
>> 
>> Yes, the end result is "tecnically correct", but it's not optimal.
>
> I think the current git-merge.sh already handles this: 6ea23343
> introduced the usage of git-show-branch --independent to filter out
> duplicated parents.

Good eyes.  I guess I was sloppy when I wrote the log message for that
one and failed to talk about the bugfix ;-).

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