<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 15:34, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I agree with resolving conflicts in-tree, but I think they should attempt the rebase without touching the working tree and only modify the working tree in case of a conflict. I don't know how difficult this would be to implement, it depends how rebase is currently implemented and what data structures are available.</blockquote>
</div><br><div>I asked on #mercurial and apparently there is new code in the development branch to apply patches in memory. Merge currently still uses the file system and rebase applies patches by merging one at a time and then going through afterward to convert merges into autonomous patches. When the people doing merge make it possible to do a full merge without touching the filesystem, it _should_ become easy/automatic to make rebase do the same.</div>