Re: [PATCH 0/3] rebase -r: support octopus merges

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Am 12.07.2018 um 18:26 schrieb Junio C Hamano:

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Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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A much more meaningful measure would be: how many octopus merge commits
have been pushed to GitHub in the past two weeks. I don't think I have the
technical means to answer that question, though.

It does not mean that misusing a feature is a good thing and should
be encouraged if many misguided people do so.

Just recently I had to rebuild the version of git-gui that comes with
Git 2.18.0 before it was released:

https://github.com/j6t/git-gui-ng/commit/f07ae1d7f07b036d78a3d4706e6cb4102e623fb3

I think that an octopus merge is the right tool for the task. Am I
misguided?

It could be used and it is the right tool are two different things,
I would think.