Linus Torvalds On Why Github Merges Are Trash

For the longest time Linus Torvalds has hated Github pull requests and due to a recent linux contribution he want on another rant about the matter so I thought we should back at what else he has said.

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[iAmTheWagon]

I love Linus for the abrasive, no-nonsense attitude.

[joelchrono]

I know this might not be that useful for everyone. But a video showcasing "How Linus wants you to contribute to software" would be kinda nice. Since I don't know how to use git properly anyways, and most tutorials assume you'll use the GitHub workflow

[phacus]

A rant from the guy that merges the *kernel* and *created* git, it's worth listen.

[thgreenshaman]

The world would be a better place if everyone was as 'straight to the point' as Linus.

[liesdamnlies]

Running the development of the Linux kernel as such a tight ship just makes sense.

[learningbird]

Other Git hosters, like GitLab, also commit such sins as Github, or do they have better taste and more good sense?

[DaraulHarris]

Most git forges just make it easy to submit your work. It reduces the barrier to entry. The problem is that when the barrier to entry is TOO low, you get trolls, and lazy people. That just leads to trouble over time.

[marble_wraith]

As of git 2.34.0 you can sign your commits with an SSH key.

Provided you're using openSSH v8.8 or higher, in theory this means you can sign your commits with the same public key you use with your github account to authenticate / push.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

0:13 Just to clarify, this was a patch to enhance the in-kernel NTFS driver, which is probably not of interest to many people. For many years we have had NTFS-3g, which is a user-mode driver that installs via FUSE, and that offers seamless read/write access to NTFS volumes.

Some people assume that a kernel-mode driver will automatically offer better performance than one running as a user process. But this is NTFS, remember ...

[vaishakhgk]

In my projects i try to use rebase and merge even though rebasing makes local branch unusable its much better than having annoying useless commit just to merge a branch. Adding option for fast forward merge will be very good.

[pavlovsky]

What's up with Joachim; he really likes your stuff doesn't he ;-) Good job on this btw, I enjoy your stuff.

[ryanmorris]

I love this community were all pissed about software in different Degrees and were all just gonna be annoying about it till it changes (even knowing it probably never will, it's only ever got worse lmao)

[TheCalcaholic]

Better NTFS support will be really cool for Windows/Linux dual booting use cases

[NiceMicroTV]

I have a few USB-HDD drives I formatted to NTFS during my Windows years.

[CamaradaArdi]

It's called pull request because you request other to git pull your changes (pull is just a fetch + merge)

[jbrown-acuity]

Did you mention that Linus is the inventor of Git?

[LordOfWizardurl]

I don't like NTFS because you can't upload large files init. 😊

[teddymasters]

I have never understood, and will never understand, why github calls them pull requests. I much prefer GitLab's Merge request. A much more logical name

[CDMS_pt]

This was someone from Microsoft for sure.

[Fuxy]

NTFS is utter cobbled together garbage though...