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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 1 May 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > And there's no way to avoid the fact that during the merge window, we will 
> > get something on the order of ten thousand commits (eg 2.6.24->25-rc1 was 
> > 9629 commits).
> 
> Well, do we _have_ _to_ take that much?  I know we _can_, but is this really
> necessary?

Do you want me to stop merging your code?

Do you think anybody else does?

Any suggestions on how to convince people that their code is not worth 
merging?

		Linus