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2020-10-29fast-rebase: demonstrate merge-ort's API via new test-tool commandLibravatar Elijah Newren1-0/+211
Add a new test-tool command named 'fast-rebase', which is a super-slimmed down and nowhere near as capable version of 'git rebase'. 'test-tool fast-rebase' is not currently planned for usage in the testsuite, but is here for two purposes: 1) Demonstrate the desired API of merge-ort. In particular, fast-rebase takes advantage of the separation of the merging operation from the updating of the index and working tree, to allow it to pick N commits, but only update the index and working tree once at the end. Look for the calls to merge_incore_nonrecursive() and merge_switch_to_result(). 2) Provide a convenient benchmark that isn't polluted by the heavy disk writing and forking of unnecessary processes that comes from sequencer.c and merge-recursive.c. fast-rebase is not meant to replace sequencer.c, just give ideas on how sequencer.c can be changed. Updating sequencer.c with these goals is probably a large amount of work; writing a simple targeted command with no documentation, less-than-useful help messages, numerous limitations in terms of flags it can accept and situations it can handle, and which is flagged off from users is a much easier interim step. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>