Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Alex Henrie wrote: > >> The unusual syntax --rebase-merges="" (that is, --rebase-merges with an >> empty string argument) has been an undocumented synonym of >> --rebase-merges=no-rebase-cousins. Stop accepting that syntax to avoid >> confusion when a rebase.merges config option is introduced, where >> rebase.merges="" will be equivalent to not passing --rebase-merges. > > Being undocumented and obscure might be a good reason for some to consider > this a bug; I do not. You could deprecate it, but there are probably > better ideas than to remove it without prior warning. > > If all you want to do is to support `rebase.merges=`, you can do that > without having to change the meaning of `--rebase-merges=`. Thanks for a doze of sanity. Let me mark the topic as on hold to wait for a resolution.
