Don't they have tooling to help with these issues? Surely a project the size of Linux, for which Git was originally created, would arrive at a workflow that is optimal for most contributors. This won't align with everyone's preferences, of course, but I can't imagine someone like Linus not being happy with it.
> Surely a project the size of Linux, for which Git was originally created, would arrive at a workflow that is optimal for most contributors.
No, it really, really wouldn't. The Linux workflow is optimized for the preferences of (a subset of) maintainers, notably Linus; it is not optimized for contributors.
