From: Sergey Organov Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 04:35:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] rebase: introduce the --recreate-merges option Message-ID: <87a7wazx8k.fsf@javad.com> In-Reply-To: Hi Johannes, Johannes Schindelin writes: [...] >> > 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