On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (That said, gits own 'pu' branch ends up jumping around, and it hasn't > caused all that much confusion, so maybe I'm overstating even that human > confusion) It survives because it is well-known. Everyone expects it to break. ocfs2 has an "ALL" branch that is everything we have working, sort of a "test this bleeding edge" thing. It gets rebased all the time, and everyone knows that they can't trust it to update linearly. Other developers have similar things in their repositories. Joel -- "What no boss of a programmer can ever understand is that a programmer is working when he's staring out of the window" - With apologies to Burton Rascoe Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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