Hi Junio, On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgad...@gmail.com> > writes: > > > The `--rebase-merges` option of `git rebase` generates todo lists that > > include the merge commits that are to be rebased. > > > > To keep things simpler to review, I decided to support only regular, > > 2-parent merge commits first. > > > > With this patch series, support is extended to cover also octopus > > merges. > > ;-) > > To be honest, I am not sure if there still are people who use octopus > (even though I freely admit that I am guilty of inventing the term and > the mechanism), given its downsides, primary one of which is that it > makes bisection less efficient. > > Nevertheless, this *is* the right thing to do from feature completeness > point of view. Thanks for following it through. --preserve-merges supports octopus merges, IIRC. And as I want to deprecate --preserve-merges, --rebase-merges *has* to support octopus merges, whether you or I would ever use them or not. Ciao, Dscho
