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

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

Actually, it's trivial to convert to other SCM's, although I guess the 
conversion tools haven't really tried. You can always turn it into a 
series of multiple merges. Yes, you lose information, but it's not like 
you lose a huge amount.

One thing to worry about is what tree object you would give to each of
these "artificially split" merge commits, though.