Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 08 May 2016 08:34:37 -0400 as excerpted: > merges shouldn't just be used for random pull-requests. However, when > you're touching multiple packages/etc they should be considered. They > should also be considered if for some reason you had a bazillion commits > to a single package that for some reason shouldn't be rebased. > I imagine that they'll be a small portion of commits as a result. > However, for the situations where they're appropriate they make a lot of > sense. > > This was some of Duncan's point, but I will comment that we'll never > have as clean a history as the kernel simply because we don't have a > release-based workflow with the work cascading up various trees. The > kernel is almost an ideal case for a merge-based workflow. I imagine > that half of Gentoo's commit volume is random revbumps and keyword > changes and that is just going to be noise no matter what. If we were > release-based we could do that stuff in its own branch and merge it all > in at once, but that just isn't us.
Recognized and agree. Thanks. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
