This highlights the only thing I don't like about Git. It's an immensely capable tool, but it gives no guidance regarding the right way to do things.
Our own teams have a set of practices which are similar but different from what Linus outlines here. And different projects on my company use different practices from those.
The worst thing is that there's no way of enforcing these workflows or practices other than out-of-band social conventions. And so minor mistakes happen, all the time. Our Git projects are never as pretty as they should be.
In other words, Git provides an awesome set of primitives for source control. I'm not sure what it'd look like, but I'd like to see a product that built on those primitives to enforce a little more order on projects.
Our own teams have a set of practices which are similar but different from what Linus outlines here. And different projects on my company use different practices from those.
The worst thing is that there's no way of enforcing these workflows or practices other than out-of-band social conventions. And so minor mistakes happen, all the time. Our Git projects are never as pretty as they should be.
In other words, Git provides an awesome set of primitives for source control. I'm not sure what it'd look like, but I'd like to see a product that built on those primitives to enforce a little more order on projects.