Re: [PATCH v1] rebase - recycle

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com> writes:

>> If it is NOT even interesting and useful enough to make you want to
>> polish and perfect it, even when you were the only user, why should
>> we be interested?  Even if your userbase starts at zero (or one,
>> counting yourself), if you make it so good, other people will come
>> to you, begging you to add that to the public tool.
>
> That is on top of "let's fork this project"? That is saying something
> :-D (point taken, just in case).

Absolutely.  If you believe in it, make it so good that people come
begging you for it.  Such an attitude is another thing that helps to
convince others that what you are doing may be worth paying attention
to.

> Given your feedback, I _think_ there is a window of opportunity for
> this? Let me give it a shot. I will first try to create an equivalent
> of this technique into a per-commit basis to make a broader usecase
> and see if has an impact (performance or avoiding conflicts for
> merges). Will let you know.

Yup, if we can decide if the "recycle" short-cut is worth taking
cheaply enough, that may be ideal, as the end-user does not have to
do or know anything and get an improved behaviour.  Thanks.