On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:54:16PM +0800, wuzhouhui wrote: > I'm confused about what the Linus said. It seemed that the branch cannot > be rebased after merged into linux-next under normal circumstances, why? You should never rebase a public-facing branch. > Linus found this issue by check commit time of commits, but I also found so > many commit in mainline are too young to be merged into linux-next before > merge to mainline. If the rebase is not recommended, why people like to > do rebase after commits are merged into linux-next? What commits have you found, and are you sure those are not just merged through email submissions to Linus instead of a git tree pull? Please note that some subsystems still use email, like Andrew Morton's. As for why people like to rebase, I do not know, you will have to ask them why they like to do bad things :) does this help? greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
