Linus Torvalds wrote: > So doing a merge doesn't really "centralize" anything. It just joins the > two development threads together in that particular line. If "master" > merges the work in "maint", master doesn't really get any more > centralized, it just gets the work that "maint" did since last time. And > if there was no other work done at all, then the two branches end up 100% > identical - there was no "merge" of the work. By the way, merges happen in _two_ directions. 'Master' merges from 'next' when 'next' is in sufficiently stable state; 'next' merges from 'master' to get changes which were considered stable enough to be put into 'master' (and 'master' merges in from 'maint', too). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html