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Message-ID: <47B1E14E.2010207@garzik.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:11:26 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))
John W. Linville wrote:
> FWIW, I definitely have a (vocal minority) group of contributors
> who resent all the rebasing. There may be a few cases of 'vanity'
> represented here, but there are definitely reasonable complaints about
> not being able to do simple pulls to stay up-to-date and/or having
> to rebase before they can send patches to me. FWIW, I think it might
> save a bit of my time as well, although I have become pretty good and
> "riding the tide" of rebasing... :-(
Definitely... that is the sort of stuff that upstream folks never see
when they rebase -- it causes an explosion of downstream rebasing, where
each rebase must wait for the one-step-up upstream to rebase, before
patches can be sent. It's easy for the rebasing to get exponential
quickly, the more downstream levels you have.
Jeff
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