Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB include file dependency fixes + kmemtraceupdates

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> so rebase isn't bad, it's often a great way to fix things as you go along. 
> It just goes with a few basic caveats.

Btw, rebasing gets a really bad name exactly because when those rules are 
violated, it ends up being _really_ painful and almost impossible for 
people to work together because the end result just ends up being some 
kind of patch-queue thing, and that just doesnt' work once the number of 
queue entries reach a certain pain threshold.

And it's happened in ACPI, DRI, ALSA, x86, etc, so those few basic caveats 
are easy to violate and then have everybody hate you. 'git rebase' is very 
useful (especially with '-i'), but it's really a dangerous tool in that it 
can really wreak havoc too.

			Linus
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