On: The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel Git history (2017)

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Rails is probably more representative of the average project; I expect that most git users don't know that octopus merges are even possible.

Joys of having Linux and git both written+managed by Torvalds:), although I do wonder if that points to to a shortfall in docs/UI.

[masklinn → yjftsjthsd-h]

The docs of `git merge` do indicate acceptably clearly that multiple commit-ish can be given.

I expect it's really more that "octopus" merge are usually of limited use, most projects are not structured as a distributed "tree of trees" the way the linux kernel is, where merging multiple downstreams regularly is a normal workflow and thus octopus merges make a lot of sense.