Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase [--onto O] A B: omit needless checkout

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:19:49 -0700

Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]> writes:

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>> This teaches "git rebase [--onto O] A B" to omit an unnecessary checkout
>> of branch B before it goes on.
>> ...
>
> This works for a frequent use-case of mine:

"Works" meaning "does not break", or "gives a great performance
improvement that it is worth having it early in a tagged release"?

>   $ git rebase master devel
>
> where I am already on branch master, and now want to rebase devel on top
> of it.
>
> The code seems to take care of a lot of corner cases and less frequent
> use-cases, including using --onto, which I don't feel able to judge about.
>
>> +# git reset --hard "$onto^0"
>
> Don't forget to remove this line. ;)