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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git rebase -i slow for a reason ?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:20:09 +0530
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Hi,

> Most of the time, I run git rebase with -i, so while it is slow, I
> always assumed there was somehow a reason.

Technically, the interactive counterpart is simply a shell script that
calls the git-rebase binary along with a bunch of other things. See
git-rebase--interactive in the the source tree. Your observations
about speed mainly have to do with how the interactive counterpart
recursively cherry-picks and rebases.

-- Ram