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.
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