Or what am I missing? The linux kernel averages >5 patches per hour. Even with multi-teired maintanership, good luck getting everyone to base their patch sets

Or what am I missing? The linux kernel averages >5 patches per hour. Even with multi-teired maintanership, good luck getting everyone to base their patch sets on the latest upstream head. I know nobody other than the kernel actually uses git as a distributed system, but there are use cases where your ideal workflow can't actually exist.