Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] rebase: stop accepting --rebase-merges=""

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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=`.
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> Thanks for a doze of sanity.  Let me mark the topic as on hold to
> wait for a resolution.