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Re: Difference between 'git rebase' and 'git rebase -m'

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 17, 2010, 11:43 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Joshua Jensen wrote:
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>> I'm curious as to why 'git rebase -m' isn't the default and what the
>> real difference is between 'git rebase' and 'git rebase -m'.
>
> git rebase is faster. :)

Perhaps a config option to let people to default to -m. Or perhaps they can just make an alias.

By the way, can we make rebase even faster? Rebasing ~20 patches or more seems slow to me. I don't know much how patching works though.

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Duy
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  1. Joshua JensenNov 16, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederNov 16, 2010
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 17, 2010
  4. Michael J GruberNov 17, 2010
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 17, 2010

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