That may be overstating things. The incomprehensible tangle is really just an annoyance. Look at it with "git log --no-merges" and it looks exactly like the tangle you'd get with CVS or subversion: lots of independent unsequenced changes by different developers.
Git by default shows this stuff, which in the kernel's use case is useful data. But in this case it's just useless chaff, and an annoyance. But hardly a serious problem.
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That may be overstating things. The incomprehensible tangle is really just an annoyance. Look at it with "git log --no-merges" and it looks exactly like the tangle you'd get with CVS or subversion: lots of independent unsequenced changes by different developers.
Git by default shows this stuff, which in the kernel's use case is useful data. But in this case it's just useless chaff, and an annoyance. But hardly a serious problem.