Sun Mar 30 10:25:56 AM +08 2025 #10 ✎

There you have it: some of the weirdest things in the Linux kernel's git history. There are 1,549 octopus merges, one of which has 66 parents. The most heavily diverged merge has 22,445,760 lines of diff, though it's a bit of a technicality because it shares no history with the rest of the repo. The kernel has four separate "initial" commits, one of which was a mistake. None of this will show up in the vast majority of git repos, but all of it is well within git's design parameters.