From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:19:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase [--onto O] A B: omit needless checkout
Message-ID: <7vhcf24j3e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47E10D0D.2080702@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>> This teaches "git rebase [--onto O] A B" to omit an unnecessary checkout
>> of branch B before it goes on.
>> ...
>
> This works for a frequent use-case of mine:

"Works" meaning "does not break", or "gives a great performance
improvement that it is worth having it early in a tagged release"?

>   $ git rebase master devel
>
> where I am already on branch master, and now want to rebase devel on top
> of it.
>
> The code seems to take care of a lot of corner cases and less frequent
> use-cases, including using --onto, which I don't feel able to judge about.
>
>> +# git reset --hard "$onto^0"
>
> Don't forget to remove this line. ;)