Hello, this is a common work pattern: git checkout master git pull for branch in $my_topic_branches; do git checkout $branch git rebase master # occasional fixups here... done Now, it looks to me that one of the first operations of rebase just undoes part of the work that the checkout of the branch did. Well, "undoes" is the wrong word, what I mean is that it looks like work may be saved by combining the two checkout and the rewinding step. Has this optimization already been implemented in git by some command I've overlooked, and if no, do you agree that there is some optimization possible? Thanks, Ralf -- 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