>> In that case you're presumably going to revert patches until the problem
>> goes away. Maybe one patch broke something, maybe its an interaction of
>> several patches. You turn patches on and off until you figure out
>> what's up.
>
> Sure. But I can't tell after the fact when I sucked Sam's patch in, so
> if Sam wrote the patch 2 months ago and I only started seeing the
> problem a week ago, it's not obvious that it might actually be Sam's patch.

Or, to summarise, "if I let my repo get 6 months out of date with the 
upstream and then pull everything in at once and try to figure out why 
it broke, it'll be quite difficult". My general reaction being "don't do 
that", but OK, I guess it's a valid complaint...

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