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Re: Difference between 'git rebase' and 'git rebase -m'

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2010, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20101116182749.GC14552@burratino>
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<4CE2C0ED.1030309@workspacewhiz.com>
Joshua Jensen wrote:
> I'm curious as to why 'git rebase -m' isn't the default and what the
> real difference is between 'git rebase' and 'git rebase -m'.
git rebase is faster. :)

git rebase works by formatting a patch series and applying it. git rebase -m uses repeated 3-way merge and should be more robust.

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