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

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date
May 10, 2007, 07:55 UTC
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Junio C Hamano 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.

Heh... you name it. But just yesterday rebase -m was a life saver for me because of its rename detection.

-- Hannes
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Message 9 of 17 in “git rebase chokes on directory -> symlink -> directory”
  1. H. Peter AnvinMay 8, 2007
  2. Alex RiesenMay 8, 2007
  3. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2007
  4. Alex RiesenMay 9, 2007
  5. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2007
  6. Alex RiesenMay 9, 2007
  7. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2007
  9. Johannes SixtMay 10, 2007
  10. Shawn O. PearceMay 10, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 11, 2007
  12. Linus TorvaldsMay 11, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 11, 2007
  14. apply: do not get confused by symlinks in the middleJunio C Hamano, May 11, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 12, 2007
  16. H. Peter AnvinMay 12, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2007

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