Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am not you, so I can only speculate, but the real reason _could_ > be that it makes it simpler to formulate steps 2 and 3 mechanically. This is somewhat true, however... > I think that approach would make more work to get to the final > state, though. I found that if I were to add the backpointer, it would have been better to add it early and avoid this extra work that you mention here :)
