Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] rebase: remove completely useless -C option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 22, 2023, 00:02 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqilgzwi61.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BFLUf7htEMXOLGOTNhUP=K11TfKrXQuC-FO4W6mHsjWQg@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> I'd probably go for that, but since in my mind the plan is still to
> deprecate and remove the apply backend as you suggested at [1], I'm
> not particularly motivated to improve/extend options specific to the
> apply backend of rebase.

I still consider that deprecating and removing the "am|format-patch pipeline" mode is a good longer term goal, but it seems we still have some features that are only available with the mode and not the other "sequence of cherry-pick" mode? We'd need to port that over to the other backend before we can wean ourselves off of the apply backend. Until then, ...

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