Re: unifying sequencer's options persisting, was Re: [PATCH v2] sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messages

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> Even if others now disagree with the above, I know I can get a huge
> speedup by changing sequencer to stop per-commit wasteful work (stop
> forking processes like "git commit", don't write control structures if
> the rebase hasn't ended or hit a conflict, don't update the working
> copy or index or reflog).  It's enough of a speedup that if backward
> compatibility won't allow such a method to be used by default, I'd
> still make yet another backend that could be optionally used.  And I'd
> have the default rebase and cherry-pick start printing annoying
> deprecation notices so that users become aware of a faster option.

A faster and less powerful interface is good; I doubt deprecation
would work well. If a workflow depends on things like post-commit
hook, the affected users deserve some way to migrate to --exec or
whatever method to compensate the loss of functionality.