While correct at the time of writing (2012), just two years later there was what Linus would call the legendary Cthulu merge: A 66 parent merge 2cde51fbd0f310c8
So this could get a footnote or an update:
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> **NOTE** \ |
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The current record for number of commit parents in the Linux kernel |
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is 12 branches merged in a single commit! |