rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits

When rebasing against an upstream that has had many commits since the
original branch was created:

 O -- O -- ... -- O -- O (upstream)
  \
   -- O (my-dev-branch)

it must read the contents of every novel upstream commit, in addition to
the tip of the upstream and the merge base, because "git rebase"
attempts to exclude commits that are duplicates of upstream ones. This
can be a significant performance hit, especially in a partial clone,
wherein a read of an object may end up being a fetch.

Add a flag to "git rebase" to allow suppression of this feature. This
flag only works when using the "merge" backend.

This flag changes the behavior of sequencer_make_script(), called from
do_interactive_rebase() <- run_rebase_interactive() <-
run_specific_rebase() <- cmd_rebase(). With this flag, limit_list()
(indirectly called from sequencer_make_script() through
prepare_revision_walk()) will no longer call cherry_pick_list(), and
thus PATCHSAME is no longer set. Refraining from setting PATCHSAME both
means that the intermediate commits in upstream are no longer read (as
shown by the test) and means that no PATCHSAME-caused skipping of
commits is done by sequencer_make_script(), either directly or through
make_script_with_merges().

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sequencer.h b/sequencer.h
index 7ebaa23734..25b396b917 100644
--- a/sequencer.h
+++ b/sequencer.h
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ int sequencer_remove_state(struct replay_opts *opts);
  * `--onto`, we do not want to re-generate the root commits.
  */
 #define TODO_LIST_ROOT_WITH_ONTO (1U << 6)
-
+#define TODO_LIST_REAPPLY_CHERRY_PICKS (1U << 7)
 
 int sequencer_make_script(struct repository *r, struct strbuf *out, int argc,
 			  const char **argv, unsigned flags);