On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Peer with extra suspicion at the octo-merge since this is the first > time I've used one of these to pull in all my topic branches. I just > ran: > $ git merge release drop_do_IRQ fix_early_irq misc-2.6.37 next-fixes optimize-unwind remove-compat-h stack_trace Looks fine to me. You don't need to list the branch you're already in, so the "release" part of that git merge command is superfluous, but with any reasonably modern git version, git will prune out any duplicate branches and not list them twice in the list of parents (once for the branch you were on, and once for you asking to merge that same branch). So it's actually pretty hard to really screw up an octopus merge, since git will even refuse anything that doesn't merge automatically and cleanly. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html