"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The `--preserve-merges` mode of the `rebase` command is slated to be > deprecated soon, ... Is everybody on board on this statement? I vaguely recall that some people wanted to have something different from what rebase-merges does (e.g. wrt first-parent history), and extending perserve-merges might be one way to do so. I do not mind at all if the way forward were to extend rebase-merges for any future features. To me, it is preferrable having to deal with just one codepath than two written in different languages. I just want to make sure we know everybody is on board the plan that we will eventually remove preserve-merges, tell those who want to use it to switch to rebase-merges, and we will extend rebase-merges when they raise issues with it saying that they cannot do something preserve-merges would have served them well with rebase-merges.
