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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-04-21 19:12:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-04-21 19:12:17 (GMT) |
| commit | e9ab76da8f9ec1b4312de87bc68a1c4bcbf10329 (patch) | |
| tree | 1cc8c75f4b7e5d4de5d0eb3c843e0cc9925310fe /Documentation | |
| parent | 52735a689270bb1de94eb3de198594b36caed9bb (diff) | |
| parent | 9585cb8d964a1f17895d58b280b5adf62265be53 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'jn/doc-fast-import-no-16-octopus-limit' into maint
Documentation update.
* jn/doc-fast-import-no-16-octopus-limit:
fast-import doc: remove suggested 16-parent limit
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index f71fb01..690fed3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -507,10 +507,6 @@ omitted when creating a new branch, the first `merge` commit will be the first ancestor of the current commit, and the branch will start out with no files. An unlimited number of `merge` commands per commit are permitted by fast-import, thereby establishing an n-way merge. -However Git's other tools never create commits with more than 15 -additional ancestors (forming a 16-way merge). For this reason -it is suggested that frontends do not use more than 15 `merge` -commands per commit; 16, if starting a new, empty branch. Here `<commit-ish>` is any of the commit specification expressions also accepted by `from` (see above). |