On Sonntag, 11. April 2010, Jeff King wrote: > Good point. Originally, we did the rebase directly on the branch, though > I'm not sure if we did "checkout $branch && reset $onto" or "branch -f > $branch $onto && checkout $branch". These days we operate on a detached > HEAD, and we seem to "checkout $onto^0", which should do the > optimization you mention. But before this "checkout $onto^0" happens, some (all?) variants still do "checkout topic && rev-list upstream..HEAD" instead of just "rev-list upstream..topic". -- Hannes -- 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