Octopus merge again

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Sun Jun 19 08:03:55 UTC 2005


* Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl> [20050619 09:48]:
> you can safely import octopus merges as a single changeset.

I think you need one changeset for each parent, but this would be
safe, too. But still this has to be implemented in the converter.

> Q: Does Mercurial support multiple parents in a sane way?

Every node has exactly two parents, but any of them can be the
nullid, i.e. the big bang.

> (similar to multiple heads)

There is no list of heads. Heads are just nodes which have no
children.

Thomas

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