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Re: can a git commit have more than two parents?

On 11/02/2007 09:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

  reading the git user manual, and i'm curious about the phrasing that
a commit might have more than one parent if that commit represents a
merge.  sure, it's obvious that it would have *two* parents, but why
doesn't the text just say that?  can there be *more* than two parents
for a commit operation?  or for any other operation?  thanks.

Sure. It's not the kind of thing you tend to run into during light/regular use I guess, but see "git merge --help". A merge can merge any number of "remotes" and this creates a commit with as many parents.

Rene.

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