[cpobrien]

There is a mention of the 66 parent merge from Linus himself:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139033182525831

[gary_bernhardt]

Whoa, you're right! He referenced it neither by 7-character short hash nor by full hash, and I didn't think to check intermediate hash lengths. I've updated the post to reference that email.

[auscompgeek]

The kernel devs recommend using 12-character commit hash abbreviations: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-pa... (bottom of the section has a git config snippet)

[semi-extrinsic]

> "Christ, that's not an octopus, that's a Cthulhu merge"

[bigiain]

Related - from Twitter recently: https://twitter.com/HenryHoffman/status/694184106440200192/p...

[digi_owl]

Never change, Torvalds, never change.

[wcummings]

>Anyway, I'd suggest you try to limit octopus merges to ~15 parents or less to make the visualization tools not go crazy. Maybe aim for just 10 or so in most cases.

I'll file this under "problems I'm glad I don't have".