Oh... well, for benefit of others since you seem to know well already, there's no need for merge at all if you are just adding patches that have already been re

Oh... well, for benefit of others since you seem to know well already, there's no need for merge at all if you are just adding patches that have already been rebased to the HEAD of the tree they're going on. They just go on top cleanly and naturally, and all right with the world. Consumers of the branch fast-forward as normal. There's a pure, linear history with no hairballs that people can bisect to patch granularity. Just say no to merge.