Hi, On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Sergey Organov wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > [...] > > >> > I'd not argue this way myself. If there are out-of-git-tree non-human > >> > users that accept and tweak todo _generated_ by current "git rebase -p" > >> > _command_, I also vote for a new option. > >> > > >> > >> To be fair, I have not seen anything that actually reads the todo list > >> and tweaks it in such a manner. The closest example is the git garden > >> shears script, which simply replaces the todo list. > >> > >> It's certainly *possible* that such a script would exist though, > > > > We actually know of such scripts. > > Please consider to explain this in the description of the change. I > believe readers deserve an explanation of why you decided to invent new > option instead of fixing the old one, even if it were only a suspicion, > more so if it is confidence. I considered. And since even the absence of this use case would *still* not be a convincing case against keeping --preserve-merges backwards-compatible, I will not mention it. Just saying that --preserve-merges is not changed, in order to keep backwards-compatibility, is plenty enough. It probably already convinced the Git maintainer, who is very careful about backwards-compatibility, and rightfully so. Ciao, Johannes
