I think Linus is making a good point, in a project as long-running as the kernel having commit messages like "Merge temp-branch-a into temp-branch-a-next" is cl

I think Linus is making a good point, in a project as long-running as the kernel having commit messages like "Merge temp-branch-a into temp-branch-a-next" is clutter and really ought not make it into `master`. Obviously Linus could just manually re-merge the changes, picking out the commits individually, but that's a ton of work and doesn't scale well as contributors grow.