From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:27:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Difference between 'git rebase' and 'git rebase -m'
Message-ID: <20101116182749.GC14552@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <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.