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Re: Out of memory error with git rebase

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2011, 20:21 UTC
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Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:
> From the documentation I can't figure out any reason why one
> wouldn't always want to use -m.  Why is it not the default?  I
> think it's pretty much impossible for ordinary users to figure out
> that they need -m in a situation like this.

Because most people do not have too large binary blobs in the history, and at least when "rebase" was originally written, merge-based rebasing was way slower than patch-based one.

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  1. Hannu KoivistoOct 26, 2011
  2. Johannes SixtOct 26, 2011
  3. Hannu KoivistoOct 31, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2011

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