Re: git rebase chokes on directory -> symlink -> directory

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 10, 2007, 22:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20070510220418.GK3141@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz0dmb2u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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>  * git-rebase with -m is dog slow.  There were people who
>    advocated to make it the default, but they probably are
>    either working in a very small project, or working on a
>    filesystem that even git-apply is slow that the speed
>    difference does not matter to them.

That would have been me saying make -m default. Because on git.git I don't really see a huge performance difference on my Mac, and the bigger projects that I work on are on Cygwin, where *everything* is slow as hell.

The few places there that I do need rebase, I actually also need the rename detection that am -3 or rebase -m would do, so I just wind up paying the penalty anyway. Or really I just get burned because I run the op without the magic "do what I really need" flag, and it dies, and I have to reset and start it again, which just takes longer than if -3 or -m was the default.

But that's not the situation everyone else has, so its reasonable that -m ain't the default. ;-)

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Shawn.