On Saturday 20 February 2010 00:30:52 Thomas Rast wrote: > Ordinary 'rebase -i' reads the commits to rebase with (roughly) > > git rev-list --left-right --cherry-pick $upstream... > > which gives it the feature of skipping commits that are already > present in $upstream. However, in the common use-case of rewriting a > few commits up to an ancestor, as in 'git rebase -i HEAD~3', the > --cherry-pick is useless since there are no commits to compare to. [...] > The --cherry-pick mechanism itself could get a similar optimization, > but I don't know that code. Or maybe it's as simple as this? diff --git i/revision.c w/revision.c index 438cc87..29721ec 100644 --- i/revision.c +++ w/revision.c @@ -547,6 +547,9 @@ static void cherry_pick_list(struct commit_list *list, struct rev_info *revs) right_count++; } + if (!left_count || !right_count) + return; + left_first = left_count < right_count; init_patch_ids(&ids); if (revs->diffopt.nr_paths) { -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html