linux-kernel - Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

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Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:42:08 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

> 
> Because if it becomes normal coding practice, now people cannot work with 
> you sanely any more (ie some random person pulls your tree for testing, 
> and then I pull it at some other time, and the tester reports a problem, 
> but now the commits he is talking about don't actually even exist in my 
> tree any more, and it's all really messy!).

It also depends on whare you are located in the dependency tree.
Being kbuidl maintainer I have very few people that actually
pull me git tree (except from -mm and -next).
So I rebase at will and have so far not got a single complaint
from anyone pulling my tree.

But people like Davem and Ingo sits much higher in the dependency chain
and thus they have a very different set of users and thus a different
set of problems to take into account.

	Sam
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