Linus himself said that emailing tarballs and patch files is better than many source control systems (he said this about SVN) I myself have seen (and had the m

Linus himself said that emailing tarballs and patch files is better than many source control systems (he said this about SVN) I myself have seen (and had the mispleasure of fixing) many tangled git history trees. In all cases, you have to be responsible, which neither influences or is influenced by your choice of revision control.