Re: What is the scenario for a commit with 3 or more parents

Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 15:12, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Compared to that downside, it is not worth to use an Octopus, only to have
a smaller number of merge commits and a cool-looking lantern-shaped merge
commit in the history.

Ok, do we have _that_ documented anywhere?

Outside the list archive, I don't think so.