Re: [PATCH 1/3] rebase.c: state preserve-merges has been removed

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 26 2022, Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
>
> Since feebd2d256 (rebase: hide --preserve-merges option, 2019-10-18)
> this option is now removed as stated in the subsequent release notes.
>
> Fix the option tip.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
> ---
>  builtin/rebase.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c
> index 7ab50cda2ad..6ce7e98a6f1 100644
> --- a/builtin/rebase.c
> +++ b/builtin/rebase.c
> @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  			PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
>  			parse_opt_interactive),
>  		OPT_SET_INT_F('p', "preserve-merges", &preserve_merges_selected,
> -			      N_("(DEPRECATED) try to recreate merges instead of "
> +			      N_("(REMOVED) try to recreate merges instead of "
>  				 "ignoring them"),
>  			      1, PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN),
>  		OPT_RERERE_AUTOUPDATE(&options.allow_rerere_autoupdate),

I have some local patches for this more generally, but for
PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN options we never do anything with the "argh" field,
i.e. it's only used for showing the "git <cmd> -h" output, and if it's
hidden it won't be there.

So there's no point in changing this string, nor to have translators
focus on it, it'll never be used.

This series shouldn't fix the general issue (which parse-options.c
should really be BUG()-ing about, after fixing the existing
occurances. But For this one we could just set this to have a string of
"" or something, only the string you're changing in 3/3 will be seen by
anyone.