Junio C Hamano wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What is the next step, then? You can find the notion ridiculous but >> it's how this project has worked in my experience (and how other >> projects with similar patch-based workflows work). > > Does "patch-based" have much to do with this? I agree that distributed > nature of the development would bring this issue, but I tend to think that > using merge/pull based workflow would not alleviate it--am I mistaken? Thanks, you're right. Distributed is the relevant feature. The same issue can even come up when using a centralized version control system like Subversion or Perforce --- without attention to API compatibility, someone's change that was thoroughly reviewed and well tested locally in a developer's working directory can introduce subtle breakage once they run "svn commit", causing it to merge with the latest upstream changes. The problem becomes more likely the more distributed a project is since each developer becomes less aware of the other changes that their modifications need to be compatible with. Jonathan