From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 23:33:46 GMT
Subject: Re: `pull --rebase --autostash` fails when fast forward in dirty repo
Message-ID: <xmqqpoewcy05.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170525182230.552dif62zqxuufk3@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Anyway. All this has shown me is that it's probably pointless to do this
> timing at all on Linux. Somebody on Windows might get better results.
>
> But regardless, we need to do something. Correctness must trump
> optimizations, and the question is whether we can throw out the whole
> conditional, or if we should just restrict when it kicks in.

Yes.  I personally do not mind going with the simplest approach.
The optimization thing is relatively new and we were perfectly happy
without it before ;-).