Re: [PATCH 02/11] Introduce a performance test for git-rebase

> Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> However, it's pretty obvious that 'rebase -f' is slow compared to
>> 'rebase -m'.  So slow in fact that the user would be better off running
>> an *interactive* rebase.
>
> The mention of "-f" got me off track, but does "-m" avoid creating
> new commits when it does not have to?  A side effect "-f" has is to
> replay _all_ the commits, if I recall correctly.

>> Now I'm not really keen on hacking on git-am until it gets back its
>> performance, as for most uses it's probably still fast enough.  But I
>> think one important question is: can we get rid of the
>> git-format-patch|git-am mode of git-rebase, which has historically been
>> a source of pain (see, e.g., the aforementioned 43c2325)?
>
> In the longer term, the right way forward is to try doing less in
> the patch mode in rebase.  For example, the command could make the
> list of commits to be replayed exactly the same way as it does for
> flattening cherry-pick rebase, and instead of running "am", run
> "format-patch --stdout | apply --3way --whitespace=fix --index" and
> commit the result using "commit -C".  That way it can depend on
> "commit -C" and does not have to worry about stupid things like
> 43c2325.