Hi, On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Sergey Organov wrote: > Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I care about the general compatibility of the rebase todo list > > regardless of which options you enabled on the command line to > > generate it. > > It's a good thing in general, yes. However, I recall I was told by the > author that --recreate-merges was introduced exactly to break backward > compatibility of the todo list. If so, could we please agree to stop > using backward compatibility as an objection in the discussion of this > particular feature? That is a serious misrepresentation of what I said. If I had changed --preserve-merges to the new format, *that* would have broken backwards-compatibility. So the entire reason of introducing --recreate-merges was to *not have to break backwards-compatibility*. I definitely did not say the *exact opposite*. Hopefully this clarifies your confusion, Johannes
