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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:34:06 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:51:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The reasons can be any of:
> 
>  - "I don't want to get too far away from upstream". This is very
> understandable, but I have asked people to please _not_ merge "random
> trees of the day". Please use major releases for this (or, if worst
> comes to worst, -rc releases) rather than just do something else.
> 

What are you throughts on starting work from a tree. Most of my work is
usually based off of some branch in tip, but sometimes when I'm pulling
in patches that are not really related to anything, I just simply grab
whatever the latest Linus branch is and start from there.

Is it preferable to instead start from one of the official releases?

-- Steve