On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 21:18 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > Rebases *do*not*work* (and fundamentally cannot work) in a > > > distributed environment. > > Hm ... I think net is a counter example to this. Rebases certainly work > > for them. The issue, I thought, was around the policy of rebasing and > > how often. > > Hmm ... as far as I can see, Jeff and John (i.e. net tree downstreams) are > pretty loudly unhappy with Dave rebasing too often, right? That's true ... but irrelevant to the argument of whether rebasing does or doesn't work. I don't think anyone's arguing that rebasing doesn't cause real problems to downstream users ... when I was based on block for the scsi post merge tree, I was just such a user ... James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html