John W. Linville wrote:
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> 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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