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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:18:59 +0200

> > Meanwhile any feedback on the idea of pushing all of this
> > consolidation and cleanup work through one of our trees
> > instead of having all of these difficult dependencies
> > between the two?
> 
> Set up a branch in one of the Git repos that is for
> this consolidation work only, that both the arch trees
> can pull from?  The beauty with Git is that this won't
> lead to merge problems :-)

I rebase my GIT tree as patches very often, and I have many direct
dependencies on this work both at the beginning and further along in
my tree.

So this won't work, that's why I haven't suggested it.