From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:21:41 GMT
Subject: [RFC] checkout --rebase
Message-ID: <CALkWK0m-ZpVvvgAB_yzooah0=veeNDudahs=4ur2YHN03h-h4g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm often work on small topic branches, and find myself doing this quite often:

  # on branch master
  $ git checkout um-build
  $ git rebase master

This is horribly inefficient; the first operation takes a _really_
long time to complete, since master updates itself very often and I
have to check out an old worktree.  So, I work around this issue by
doing:

  # on branch master
  $ git checkout -b um-build-2
  $ git cherry-pick ..um-build
  $ git branch -M um-build

... and I scripted it.  Perhaps we should get this functionality in
core, as `git checkout --rebase` (or something)?

Thanks.