Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions

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On 2008-06-19 00:38:21 +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:01:24PM -0700, Jakub Narebski
> <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > As a part of patch series introducing new fast-forward strategies
> > (--ff=never, --ff=only) there was patch which did merge reduction
> > before selecting merge strategy, by Sverre Hvammen Johansen
> >   "[PATCH 4/5] Head reduction before selecting merge strategy"
> >   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/80288/focus=80335
> > (I'm not sure if the link above is to nevest version of patch
> > series).
>
> Side note: builtin-merge does not have problem with merging 25+ refs
> even in case every ref contains "new" commits.

So how many parents can a commit have, exactly? Is there a hard limit
somewhere, or just a point beyond which some git tools will start
behaving strangely?

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Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
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