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Or what am I missing?

The linux kernel averages >5 patches per hour. Even with multi-teired maintanership, good luck getting everyone to base their patch sets on the latest upstream head.

I know nobody other than the kernel actually uses git as a distributed system, but there are use cases where your ideal workflow can't actually exist.



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