At least after the successive trimming of enum rebase_type mentioned in the previous commit, this code did exactly what imply_merge() does, so just call it instead. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@xxxxxx> --- Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/rebase.c | 13 +------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c index 44cc1eed12..4a093bb125 100644 --- a/builtin/rebase.c +++ b/builtin/rebase.c @@ -1490,18 +1490,7 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (options.strategy) { options.strategy = xstrdup(options.strategy); - switch (options.type) { - case REBASE_APPLY: - die(_("--strategy requires --merge or --interactive")); - case REBASE_MERGE: - /* compatible */ - break; - case REBASE_UNSPECIFIED: - options.type = REBASE_MERGE; - break; - default: - BUG("unhandled rebase type (%d)", options.type); - } + imply_merge(&options, "--strategy"); } if (options.root && !options.onto_name) -- 2.42.0.419.g70bf8a5751