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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, Zefan Li wrote:

> > Then it should just be case of of asking Stephen to "put this tree last
> > in linux-next", and Linus to "pull this one last, right before
> > releasing -rc1". And getting the timing right for the script to run.
> > 
> 
> This makes git-blame less useful, and that's one of the reasons some
> maintainers don't like trivial cleanups.

Josh was asking about useful tree-wide changes.  How does that mae git 
blame less useful than doing the changes one by one?

And actually couldn't git blame be made to work better?

julia