Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> If you are depending on a single topic in 'next', it is better to
> build on the tip of that topic, not on 'next', if you can figure out
> where the tip is. In practice, while we are exchanging patches via
> e-mail, there should be no noticeable difference either way [*1*],
> ...
And the forgotten foot note would have said something like this:
*1* If you are depending only on a single topic in 'next', and
other topics in 'next' do not interfere with your work, then by
definition, your patches that apply cleanly on 'next' ought to
apply cleanly on the tip of that single topic.
;-)