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You do realize that the very nature of distributed version control makes it trivially easy to ignore half-assed patches until they're ready? There are very good ways to prevent the too many cooks effect, you see.

Not to mention that you haven't so far shown that this scenario was likely in git's case. I guess some people have a tendency to prefer a One Strong Leader, you know, Stalin and Hitler and Bush and so forth, to a bunch of clever people who know their shit.