Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

David Miller
2008-02-12T23:50:46Z

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:48 -0500

> I understand the desire to want a nice and clean history, but the
> frequency here really has a negative impact on your downstreams.

Ok, fair enough. Any alternative suggestions on how to remove turds
without them being in the history?

> It also totally screws the commit statistics, wiping me and John and the
> committers we have preserved out, replacing everybody's committer with
> David Miller.

I am well aware of this downside, sorry.