From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:29:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch.c: optimize --merged and --no-merged
Message-ID: <20080724172929.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzeg9rhh.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "git branch --no-merged $commit" used to compute the merge base between
> the tip of each and every branch with the named $commit, but this was
> wasteful when you have many branches.

I am not sure if I followed the technical description of the patch, but I
have a stupid question.  How is --merged different from --contains?

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Nanako Shiraishi
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