> An alternative that worked really well for me is "do not push broken code". Linus is saying "If you pull at a random time, you might get cruft in your local t

> An alternative that worked really well for me is "do not push broken code". Linus is saying "If you pull at a random time, you might get cruft in your local tree". Why is that? It's not about pushing broken code, it's about having a very complex code base and you just can't foresee how each change will behave before it has been tested by a lot of people on a lot of different machines. A linux release is a pretty good point in time to get a quite well tested version and therefore it's a good base for your changes and to be able to test how your changes - only your changes - behave.