From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:33:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use diff* with --exit-code in git-am, git-rebase and git-merge-ours
Message-ID: <20070325093345.GA2563@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt15c150.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Sun, Mar 25, 2007 08:01:31 +0200:
> However, I have a few comments.
> 
> Have you run any benchmark?  I suspect "and speeds things up" is

I didn't benchmark any of these, so I can't backup the statement with
the number but...

> a gross overstatement.  A qualified "SOMETIMES speeds things up"
> would be a more honest thing to say.

it must speed things up, if only for removed shell-side efforts to
redirect the output and store it in heap. To overstatement it I should
have said: "greatly speeds things up".