Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add option to autostage changes when continuing a rebase
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Aug 24, 2017, 16:46 UTC
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Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:
> It could be expensive to check that the local modifications will not > interfere with the rebase - wouldn't it have to look at all the files > touched by each commit before starting? What do cherry-pick and am do > here when picking several commits?
Yes, so?
"I do not think of a way to implement it cheaply, so we forbid anybody from finding a clever optimization to implement it cheaply by adding a feature that will not work well with it when it happens?"