> -Original Message-
> From: Jeff King [mailto:p...@peff.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 5:38 PM
> To: Junio C Hamano
> Cc: Ben Peart ; git@vger.kernel.org;
> pclo...@gmail.com; =peart...@gmail.com; Ben Peart
>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: elimina
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 02:22:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > + /*
> > +* Optimize the performance of checkout when the current and
> > +* new branch have the same OID and avoid the trivial merge.
> > +* For example, a "git checkout -b foo" just needs to create
> > +* the n
Ben Peart writes:
> Teach git to avoid unnecessary merge during trivial checkout. When
> running 'git checkout -b foo' git follows a common code path through
> the expensive merge_working_tree even when it is unnecessary.
I would be lying if I said I am not sympathetic to the cause, but...
> +
Teach git to avoid unnecessary merge during trivial checkout. When
running 'git checkout -b foo' git follows a common code path through
the expensive merge_working_tree even when it is unnecessary. As a
result, 95% of the time is spent in merge_working_tree doing the 2-way
merge between the new a
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