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On tor, 2012-04-12 at 10:12 -0500, Joshua Berkus wrote:
> Well actually, the other advantage of using branches is that it would
> encourage committers to bounce a patch back to the submitter for
> modification *instead of* doing it themselves.  This would both have
> the advantage of saving time for the committer, and doing a better job
> of teaching submitters how to craft patches which don't need to be
> modified.

I don't see how using branches changes that.  You could (or should) be
doing that already anyway.