Re: [PATCH 5/8] rebase: introduce the --recreate-merges option

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2018, 04:35 UTC
Message-ID: <87a7wazx8k.fsf@javad.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1802150209390.35@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz>

Hi Johannes, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> > I'd not argue this way myself. If there are out-of-git-tree non-human
>> > users that accept and tweak todo _generated_ by current "git rebase -p"
>> > _command_, I also vote for a new option.
>> >
>> 
>> To be fair, I have not seen anything that actually reads the todo list
>> and tweaks it in such a manner. The closest example is the git garden
>> shears script, which simply replaces the todo list.
>> 
>> It's certainly *possible* that such a script would exist though,
>
> We actually know of such scripts.

Please consider to explain this in the description of the change. I believe readers deserve an explanation of why you decided to invent new option instead of fixing the old one, even if it were only a suspicion, more so if it is confidence.

-- Sergey

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