Re: [RFC] Rebasing merges: a jorney to the ultimate solution(RoadClear)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 30, 2018, 10:38 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1803301235560.5026@qfpub.tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <87zi2r5swc.fsf@javad.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Sergey Organov wrote:

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> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I care about the general compatibility of the rebase todo list
> > regardless of which options you enabled on the command line to
> > generate it.
> 
> It's a good thing in general, yes. However, I recall I was told by the
> author that --recreate-merges was introduced exactly to break backward
> compatibility of the todo list. If so, could we please agree to stop
> using backward compatibility as an objection in the discussion of this
> particular feature?

That is a serious misrepresentation of what I said.

If I had changed --preserve-merges to the new format, *that* would have broken backwards-compatibility.

So the entire reason of introducing --recreate-merges was to *not have to break backwards-compatibility*.

I definitely did not say the *exact opposite*.

Hopefully this clarifies your confusion, Johannes