From: Catalin Marinas Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:22:00 GMT Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH 1/2] Do simple in-index merge with diff+apply instead of read-tree Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080702061243.11361.75544.stgit@yoghurt> 2008/7/2 Karl Hasselström : > The advantage is that patch application will resolve some file content > conflicts for us, so that we'll fall back to merge-recursive less > often. This is a significant speedup, especially since merge-recursive > needs to touch the worktree, which means we have to check out the > index first. Thanks. -- Catalin