RE: git pull on Linux/ACPI release tree

>I know a lot of people react to this kind of usage with "what's the
>point of the source control system if you're just messing with patches
>in and out of the tree all the time" But as a subsystem maintainer,
>you deal with a lot of changes and it's important to get a pristine
>clean history when you push things to Linus.
>
>In fact, I do this so much that Linus's tree HEAD often equals my
>origin when he pulls.
>
>Merges really suck and I also hate it when the tree gets cluttered
>up with them, and Linus is right, ACPI is the worst offender here.
>
>Yes, we can grep the merges out of the shortlog or whatever, but that
>merging crap is still physically in the tree.
>
>Just don't do it.  Merge into a private branch for testing if you
>don't want to rebuild trees like I do, but push the clean tree to
>Linus.