Re: Could this be done simpler?

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

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If someone creates a "git decompose-octopus <commit>" command then ...

I am afraid that misses the entire point of my discussion.

Such a decomposed octopus would _only_ be necessary during bisection, only
when the user chooses to test two tips at once (instead of testing one by
one), _and_ only its tree is needed for that purpose.  In other words, we
should be able to do this _without_ creating an extra commit, let alone
replace mechanism.