Thanks for clarifying this, folks. On 2019-04-17 6:11 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > To my surprise, Elijah Newren (who authored that change) then demonstrated > that in most cases, the `--merge` backend is actually *faster* than the > default (`--am`) backend. There were patches floating around to make it > the default rebase backend for that reason, but those patches were not > picked up yet. Would be cool to see these picked up.