Re: [PATCH 0/3] rebase: offer to reschedule failed exec commands automatically

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 3:13 PM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The idea was brought up by Paul Morelle.
>
> To be honest, this idea of rescheduling a failed exec makes so much sense
> that I wish we had done this from the get-go.
>
> So let's do the next best thing: implement a command-line option and a
> config setting to make it so.
>
> The obvious intent behind that config setting is to not only give users a
> way to opt into that behavior already, but also to make it possible to flip
> the default at a later date, after the feature has been battle-tested and
> after deprecating the non-rescheduling behavior for a couple of Git
> versions.
>
> If the team agrees with my reasoning, then the 3rd patch (introducing -y
> <cmd> as a shortcut for --reschedule-failed-exec -x <cmd>) might not make
> much sense, as it would introduce a short option that would become obsolete
> soon.
>

Complete side-track: This email showed up for me just five minutes
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