I totally missed that this patch made it into next, and then master. Sorry about that. Changes since v1: * Focused on the "why?" in the commit message. Johannes Schindelin (1): Revert "rebase: introduce a shortcut for --reschedule-failed-exec" Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 6 ------ builtin/rebase.c | 21 --------------------- git-legacy-rebase.sh | 6 ------ t/t3418-rebase-continue.sh | 3 --- 4 files changed, 36 deletions(-) base-commit: b5101f929789889c2e536d915698f58d5c5c6b7a Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-118%2Fdscho%2Frevert-rebase-y-v2 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-118/dscho/revert-rebase-y-v2 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/118 Range-diff vs v1: 1: e61ebc3060 ! 1: a4857fb32d Revert "rebase: introduce a shortcut for --reschedule-failed-exec" @@ -2,22 +2,20 @@ Revert "rebase: introduce a shortcut for --reschedule-failed-exec" - When contributing the patch series, the cover letter tried to convey - clearly that the patch introducing the shortcut -y was included only to - show that it is possible, with a slight bias against it. + This patch was contributed only as a tentative "we could introduce a + convenient short option if we do not want to change the default behavior + in the long run" patch, opening the discussion whether other people + agree with deprecating the current behavior in favor of the rescheduling + behavior. - During the review, there were a couple reviewers who agreed with this - sentiment, and the author was happy that this patch was not needed and - concurred that it should be dropped. See e.g. Stefan Beller's reply: + But the consensus on the Git mailing list was that it would make sense + to show a warning in the near future, and flip the default + rebase.rescheduleFailedExec to reschedule failed `exec` commands by + default. See e.g. <CAGZ79kZL5CRqCDRb6B-EedUm8Z_i4JuSF2=UtwwdRXMitrrOBw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - However, it slipped by the original patch author (yours truly) that the - patch *was* included when the branch made it to `next` and then when it - made it to `master`. - - So let's back out that patch before it even slips into an official - release (in which case we would even have to support this unwanted - flag). + So let's back out that patch that added the `-y` short option that we + agreed was not necessary or desirable. This reverts commit 81ef8ee75d5f348d3c71ff633d13d302124e1a5e. -- gitgitgadget