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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] GIT workflow model to help solve some of the problems
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The issue is the speed of review and merging.
Adding branching will make this worse not better, because there will
be more branches no one is looking at.

I made some concrete suggestions at the DPDK Userspace Summit
that would help if implemented.