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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/6/19 11:22 PM, Sven Panne wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Am Sa., 6. Juli 2019 um 19:06 Uhr schrieb Bryan
Richter <<a href="mailto:b@chreekat.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">b@chreekat.net</a>>:<br>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[...] Rather than argue
against GHC's current practices, however, I would like <br>
to understand them better. What issues led to a rebase-only
workflow? <br>
Which expert opinions were considered? What happy stories
can people <br>
relate? We recently switched away from a rebase-only
workflow at <br>
$workplace, and it's already made life so much nicer for us
-- so I'm <br>
curious what unforeseen pain we might be in for. :)</blockquote>
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<div>I've worked for several companies of several sizes, and
from my experience the rule is: The bigger the company, the
more there is a tendency to use a rebase-only workflow, with
big/huge projects exclusively relying on rebases, explicitly
forbidding (non-fast-forward) merges.</div>
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<p>How does the scaling argument reconcile with the massive scope of
the Linux kernel, the project for which git was created? I can
find some middle ground with the more specific points you made in
your email, but I have yet to understand how the scaling argument
holds water when Linux trucks along with "4000 developers, 450
different companies, and 200 new developers each release"[1]. What
makes Linux special in this regard? Is there some second
inflection point?<br>
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<p>-Bryan<br>
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<p>[1]: Stated by Greg Kroah-Hartman in a few of his talks, like
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8OOzaqS37s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8OOzaqS37s</a> or
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs</a> .</p>
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