From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:46:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add option to autostage changes when continuing a rebase
Message-ID: <xmqqtw0wx6b1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5dcd588d-b6ce-713d-dc28-25853d5bb4b3@talktalk.net>

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?"