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

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"Merge branches 'RELEASE' and 'fluff' into RELEASE"?  That happens if you
are _on_ release branch and say "git merge release fluff".

Right. But git shouldn't do duplicate parents. I agree it's a mis-use of 
git merge, but either we should have errored out or we should have pruned 
the parents.

Yes, the end result is "tecnically correct", but it's not optimal.

		Linus