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> Hi Elijah,
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 05:19:44PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
>> Personally, although I understand the desire to support any possible
>> cases in general, *this is a performance hack*. As such, it should be
>> as simple and localized as possible. I don't think supporting
>> old-style stuck flags (-b$BRANCH) is worth complicating this. I'm
>> even leery of adding support for --track (do any users of huge repos
>> use -b with --track? Does anyone at all use --track anymore? I'm not
>> sure I've ever seen any user use that flag in the last 10 years other
>> than myself.) Besides, in the *worst* possible case, the command the
>> user specifies works just fine...it just takes a little longer. My
>> opinion is that Stolee's patch is perfect as-is and should not be
>> generalized at all.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with this, and pledge my $.02 towards it as well.
> Now with a combined total of $.04, I think that this patch is ready for
> queueing as-is.
Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>