From: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Eugeniu Rosca" <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Eugeniu Rosca" <roscaeugeniu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] rebase -i: stop checking out the tip of the branch to rebase
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:45:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4142ab55-3311-4be2-2173-5cdacafb17f3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5zh36wx1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
Hi Junio,
Le 22/01/2020 à 21:47, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> One of the first things done by the interactive rebase is to make a todo
>> list. This requires knowledge of the commit range to rebase. To get
>> the oid of the last commit of the range, the tip of the branch to rebase
>> is checked out with prepare_branch_to_be_rebased(), then the oid of the
>> HEAD is read. On big repositories, it's a performance penalty: the user
>> may have to wait before editing the todo list while git is extracting the
>> branch silently (because git-checkout is silenced here). After this,
>> the head of the branch is not even modified.
>
> Hmph. One curious thing in the above is why this is specific to
> "rebase -i". The need to know the commit range to rebase is shared
> across any rebase backend, and it would be the most natural to parse
> the optional second argument (i.e. the branch or the commit to
> rebase) before builtin/rebase.c dispatches to a specific rebase
> backend, wouldn't it? So, the question is why a normal "rebase"
> does not need the same fix?
>
That's a problem shared by all rebases using the sequencer, so -m and -r
are also affected by this. `am' is not.
> If the answer is "rebase in general was fine without extra checkout,
> but 'rebase -i' was doing an unnecessary checkout" (or any other
> answer) that is something that would help future readers to record
> in the commit log message.
>
So yes, the answer is that the am backend does not perform this
checkout, unlike all others rebases.
I will resend this patch very soon.
> Thanks.
>
>
Cheers,
Alban
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-24 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-08 21:43 Unreliable 'git rebase --onto' Eugeniu Rosca
2020-01-08 22:35 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-09 0:55 ` Elijah Newren
2020-01-09 15:03 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-09 17:53 ` Elijah Newren
2020-01-21 19:18 ` [PATCH v1] rebase -i: stop checking out the tip of the branch to rebase Alban Gruin
2020-01-21 20:07 ` Elijah Newren
2020-01-22 20:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-22 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-24 14:45 ` Alban Gruin [this message]
2020-01-24 14:45 ` [PATCH v2] " Alban Gruin
2020-01-24 14:55 ` Alban Gruin
2020-01-24 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-24 15:05 ` [PATCH v3] " Alban Gruin
2020-01-24 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-05 14:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-24 17:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Andrei Rybak
2020-01-09 11:13 ` Unreliable 'git rebase --onto' Eugeniu Rosca
[not found] ` <CABPp-BHsyMOz+hi7EYoAnAWfzms7FRfwqCoarnu8H+vyDoN6SQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-09 10:53 ` Eugeniu Rosca
2020-01-09 18:05 ` Elijah Newren
2020-01-10 0:06 ` Eugeniu Rosca
2020-01-10 2:35 ` Elijah Newren
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