I use stgit[1] which makes it easy to polish patches (commits), re-order patches, format and email patches, etc. It also makes it very easy to keep a lot of bal

I use stgit[1] which makes it easy to polish patches (commits), re-order patches, format and email patches, etc. It also makes it very easy to keep a lot of balls in the air at once, working on lots of commits all at the same time while keeping them reasonably separated from one another. I've had maybe 50 to 100 patches going at once from time to time (but usually more like 5 to 10). Then there are guys like Andrew Morton who's known to juggle 1000s of patches at a time using ancient home grown scripts that are the primordial ancestor of quilt[2] and stgit. [1] https://stacked-git.github.io/ https://stacked-git.github.io/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt_(software) Edit: forgot to mention, once I'm happy with a given patch/commit, or series of patches/commits, I then cherry-pick or merge them from my patches branch over to the "real" branch, and then push them.