Re: [GSoC] Regarding "Convert scripts to builtins"

> Note! There is one exception, and it is not even a full script. As
> everybody knows who follows my patch series on this here mailing list, I
> consider --preserve-merges one of my stupidest design mistakes ever. To
> undo this (or at least to alleviate the damage I caused), I already
> submitted a patch series to introduce a superseding option:
> --recreate-merges. This patch series is on hold due to the -rc phase of
> v2.17 and will be kicked back into action after v2.17.0 final is out. As
> it is my hope that --preserve-merges can be deprecated in favor of
> --recreate-merges (and eventually even phased out of Git), I would be
> totally cool with git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh being factored out of
> git-rebase--interactive.sh before converting the latter to pure C, and
> leaving the --preserve-merges script alone until the time when it is put
> to rest.
>
> (While I was sleeping, leaving this mail unfinished, to be completed and
> sent today, a patch series was sent to the mailing list that seems to
> perform this refactoring of --preserve-merges into its own script.)