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Figure 6-15
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The repository from Recipe 6-8 as drawn by the $ git log with --graph switch command
There is rarely a need to merge more than two branches. In fact, in many popular
projects, such as jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, Symfony, there are no com-
mits with more than two parents. The only projects that I know of with merges of more
than two branches at the same time are git and Linux. Surprisingly, Linux contains
commits that have 32 parents! You can verify it using
--min-parents=n
options of
$ git log
command, such as:
$ git log --oneline --min-parents=32
