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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
        Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
        Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Drop support for git rebase --preserve-merges
References: <pull.195.git.1574542242.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
        <pull.195.v2.git.1630497435.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:25:13 -0700
In-Reply-To: <pull.195.v2.git.1630497435.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Johannes
        Schindelin via GitGitGadget's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:57:07
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"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> In 427c3bd28ab (rebase: deprecate --preserve-merges, 2019-03-11) (which was
> included in v2.22.0), we officially deprecated the --preserve-merges
> backend. Over two years later, it is time to drop that backend, and here is
> a patch series that does just that.

A good goal.  There is no remaining use case where (a fictitious and
properly working version of) "--preserve-merges" option cannot be
replaced by "--rebase-merges", is it?  I somehow had a feeling that
the other Johannes (sorry if it weren't you, j6t) had cases that the
former worked better, but perhaps I am mis-remembering things.

Thanks.