Re: Wouldn't YOU be fucking pissed off ...
Especially when you waste YOUR time trying to figure out what is going on, imagine Linus, is it me, my check-out, or why does this not compile ... Seriously, it did not even compile ... that is what is known as a blind check-in ... locally, that is fine, work in progress blahblah ... but you must test stuff before you submit it to the central repo or Linux Lord. For the non-devs, "test" does not mean "compile" .... "compile" is the action required to get a working program that you then "test" against the "bugs your changes are supposed to fix" or "features your changes are supposed to introduce".
I think what happened here was the devs wanted to hurry ...don't, ever, rush code out the door, it will be immensely time-costly to iron all the bugs out. Been there, done that, AND had to clean up afterwards.
BTW, that faulty branch deserved all the French that was thrown at it, again, it did not even compile ...