Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > At the risk of derailing this thread, a thing that would make rebase > even faster I think would be to change it so that instead of applying > a patch at a time to the working tree the whole operation takes place > on temporary trees & commits and then we'll eventually move the branch > pointer to that once it's finished. > > I.e. there's no reason for why a sequence of 1000 patches where a > FOO.txt is changed from "hi1", "hi2", "hi3", ... would be noticeably > slower than applying the same changes with git-fast-import.
Also, not touching the worktree during rebase would have the advantage that if the final result doesn't change a file, we wouldn't need to touch this file at all, hence the next "make" (or whatever timestamp-using build system the user runs) would consider this file unchanged. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
