From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Wildenhues Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase [--onto O] A B: omit needless checkout Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:21:41 +0100 Organization: Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn Message-ID: <20080315222140.GE24845@ins.uni-bonn.de> References: <20080312191041.GF3198@ins.uni-bonn.de> <47D8D5B8.70809@viscovery.net> <20080315103954.GD14769@ins.uni-bonn.de> <7vk5k3n2ho.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Sixt To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 15 23:22:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jaell-0005rA-Gi for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:22:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752969AbYCOWVq (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:21:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752884AbYCOWVq (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:21:46 -0400 Received: from merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de ([131.220.223.13]:50258 "EHLO merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752850AbYCOWVp (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:21:45 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (xdsl-87-78-71-236.netcologne.de [87.78.71.236]) by merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C94D40000493; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:21:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from ralf by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jael3-0003C3-4D; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:21:41 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Ralf Wildenhues , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Sixt Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vk5k3n2ho.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello Junio, * Junio C Hamano wrote on Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 09:42:11PM CET: > This teaches "git rebase [--onto O] A B" to omit an unnecessary checkout > of branch B before it goes on. > * Almost untested as I do not use this form very often. Feedback would > be good. Nice, and seems to do exactly what I meant. Actually the more important speedup gained from this change is that files that have changed in the non-common history of A but not in that of B, preserve their old time stamps, so the rebuild of my bugfix topic B after having built master is really quick now. Thanks! Ralf