Linus and co. do read every patch. Either Linus or somebody Linus trusts absolutely, has read each patch going into the kernel. Also, release tags are signed, for every single kernel release.
The way git works is that every new commit depends on every commit before it. Since no code is brought into the trees without checking the commit IDs, there's no way that any non-tagged commit could be modified without somebody noticing.
I understand that you don't like git, but you might want to read up on how the kernel is developed before making spurious claims.
The way git works is that every new commit depends on every commit before it. Since no code is brought into the trees without checking the commit IDs, there's no way that any non-tagged commit could be modified without somebody noticing.
I understand that you don't like git, but you might want to read up on how the kernel is developed before making spurious claims.