There seems to be quite a bit of merging from master into branches going on in 
the GHC repos at the moment.  This isn't necessarily a good way of using Git as 
Linus explains in this message:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg39091.html

The way I understand it is that Git avoids the performance problems of darcs 
when branching and merging (by not trying to commute patches), but the price we 
have to pay for that is the resulting fixed order of patches as well as merge 
patches cluttering up the history.  So, maintaining branches requires a bit 
more care.

Manuel


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