Linus Torvalds: «So for that end-point-developer situation "git rebase" is absolutely the right thing to do [...] So doing "git fetch + git rebase" is *wonderful* if all you keep track of is your own patches, and nobody else ever cares until they get merged into somebody elses tree [...] BUT if you're a subsystem maintainer, and other people are supposed to be able to pull from you, and you're supposed to merge other peoples work, then rebasing is a *horrible* workflow...»