From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:21:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Out of memory error with git rebase
Message-ID: <7vlis0q5d6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <83r51ta1rq.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>

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.