Re: Is my repository broken?

Julian Phillips [off-list ref] writes:

...  However - will having commits with more than 16
parents break things for un-modified git?

Offhand, 82d853d (builtin-blame.c: allow more than 16 parents, 2008-04-03)
comes to mind.  Also I would not be surprised if Porcelain scripts on the
periphery had trouble with commits with duplicated parents and such
esotericos, though.