Linus Torvalds: GitHub created absolutely useless garbage merge

In August 2020, Paragon, a company engaged in various storage technologies, announced in a high-profile manner that their NTFS read-write driver will be provided in the Linux kernel after many years as a commercial driver for users who need reliable support for the Microsoft file system on Linux. Mainline development in progress.

It is understood that after several revisions, Paragon submitted a pull request for its NTFS read/write driver a few days ago, called NTFS3, for the upcoming Linux 5.15 kernel.

The Paragon "NTFS3" kernel driver provides Microsoft's NTFS file system with better read/write support than other kernels or FUSE options in order to support this file system on Linux.

However, Linus Torvalds, the head of Linux, is very dissatisfied with this application. His prejudice is not about the pull request of the package, but about the GitHub merge submission among them​:

GitHub has created absolutely useless garbage merges, and you should never use the GitHub interface to merge anything.

GitHub is a perfect hosting website. It does a great job in many other ways, but "merger​" is by no means one of them.

Linux kernel merging requires to be carried out correctly and , which means that there must be appropriate submission information, which must contain the contents of the merged content and why merged content. But it also means proper author and submitter information, etc. And all of this was completely messed up by GitHub.

At the end of the email, Torvalds mentioned what he prefers to replace GitHub when it comes to the merger of the Linux kernel. In order to continue development, Torvalds believes to do something more correct and suitable, which means merging from the command line instead of using the completely broken GitHub web interface.

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