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

Jeff Garzik
2008-02-12T18:11:42Z

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