Hi Junio, On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > This prefix match also happens to introduce a serious performance problem, > > which is why I "fixed" this issue in the rebase--helper already (which is > > the case if you are using Git for Windows, whose master branch builds on > > Linux and MacOSX as well). I quoted "fix" because my motivation was to fix > > the performance problem, not the "incorrect match" problem. > > In other words, regardless of your motivation, you "fix"ed both, > which is very nice ;-) Almost. While I fixed the performance issues as well as the design allowed, I happened to "fix" the problem where an incomplete prefix match could be favored over an exact match. I really fixed the performance issues. Not "fixed" them. Ciao, Johannes