Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2012, #05; Thu, 12)

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I wonder if use of remoteheads later in the same function are correct,
> though.  We equate "!remoteheads->next" and "We are not doing octopus",
> for example.

I do think it would generally be a great idea to never use
"remoteheads" at all. An octopus merge that has been simplified to
just two parents isn't really an octopus merge any more.

So I think you're probably right - we should try to avoid using
remoteheads entirely, and any use is suspect

                 Linus
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