[jefurii]

The author mentions this several times, but the Linux kernel project workflow is built around email, as described on LWN[0] and discussed here[1] and on Reddit[2]. [edited for format]

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15370620

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/73gpys/why_lin...

[ChrisSD]

And git was specifically designed for that workflow.

[ChrisSD]

Since this is oddly getting down votes for some reason, I'll quote wikipedia[0]:

> Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel, with other kernel developers contributing to its initial development.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git

[paulddraper]

Further, git provides utilities specifically meant to work with email workflows, e.g. git am.

[wmf]

You have to do a bunch of squashing and rebasing to produce clean patch series; I wonder if there could be a better UX for that.

[pm215]

I like 'stgit' for this -- it lets you manage a work-in-progress patch series as a stack of patches you can move around in, update, reorder and so on, which I find more natural than raw git rebases.

[lsiebert]

git itself uses the same process for patches.