Hannu Koivisto <azure@xxxxxx> writes: > From the documentation I can't figure out any reason why one > wouldn't always want to use -m. Why is it not the default? I > think it's pretty much impossible for ordinary users to figure out > that they need -m in a situation like this. Because most people do not have too large binary blobs in the history, and at least when "rebase" was originally written, merge-based rebasing was way slower than patch-based one. -- 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