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From: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, tao@klerks.biz, gitster@pobox.com,
	newren@gmail.com, phillip.wood123@gmail.com,
	Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, sorganov@gmail.com,
	calvinwan@google.com, jonathantanmy@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:46:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kl6lttykuxfu.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3hH0Gw71UAm10Os=6YJ4RAoAJxC3exN_jekMy6-JRsVg@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

>> --[no-]rebase-merges [--rebase-merges-mode=(rebase-cousins|no-rebase-cousins)]
>>
>> I don't think there would be any confusion.
>> [...]
>> (Having --rebase-merges-mode
>> be a no-op without --rebase-merges is probably even more confusing to
>> users, plus this would break backwards compatibility, so I don't think
>> this is a good idea at all.)
>
> I don't find it confusing. And how would it break backwards
> compatibility if --rebase-merges-mode doesn't exist now?

I meant that for the above example to work, we would need to have
`--[no-]rebase-merges` as a boolean that says whether we rebase merges at
all, and `--rebase-merges-mode=[whatever]` would tell us what mode to
use _if_ we were rebasing merges. This means that
`--rebase-merges=not-a-boolean` would become invalid.

We were in this position before, actually, with `git log -p -m`. The
conclusion on a recent series [1] is that having such a no-op flag was
probably a mistake (and unfortunately, one that is extremely hard to fix
due to backwards compatibility requirements), so introducing more no-op
flags is probably a bad idea :)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/871qn5pyez.fsf@osv.gnss.ru

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-16 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-23  5:34 [PATCH v4 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-23  5:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] rebase: stop accepting --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 13:54   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 17:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 17:50       ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 18:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 18:23           ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 18:40             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 18:55               ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 19:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 19:24                   ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 19:24                   ` Phillip Wood
2023-02-24 19:56                     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-23  5:34 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 13:53   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 17:49     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 14:55   ` Phillip Wood
2023-02-24 17:51     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-23 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 13:57   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 19:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-25 18:09     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-25 18:03 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:23     ` Glen Choo
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:46     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-02 10:07     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-02 18:02     ` Calvin Wan
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:43     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-02  9:37     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-04 23:24       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 16:23         ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-12 20:57           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-13 14:20             ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-13 16:12               ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-13 19:46             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-24 14:47             ` About replaying "evil" merges... " Johannes Schindelin
2023-03-02 18:02     ` Calvin Wan
2023-03-04 23:24       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:14   ` [PATCH v5 0/3] " Glen Choo
2023-03-02  5:02     ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-02  5:09       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-05  5:07   ` [PATCH v6 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-08 22:25       ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 14:59       ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 14:56       ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-07 18:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-12 21:01           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-08  0:09         ` Glen Choo
2023-03-08  0:02       ` Glen Choo
2023-03-12 21:03         ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-15  2:52         ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-16 17:32           ` Glen Choo
2023-03-16 18:11             ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-16 22:46               ` Glen Choo [this message]
2023-03-16 23:48                 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-16 20:27             ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-16 22:39               ` Glen Choo
2023-03-18  5:59                 ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-24 15:05               ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-03-25 16:59               ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-05 12:22     ` [PATCH v6 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Sergey Organov
2023-03-05 21:33       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-05 22:54         ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-06  0:02           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-06 13:23             ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-06 19:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 17:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 16:24     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-06 17:36       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 15:07         ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-08  0:13     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-12 21:04     ` [PATCH v7 " Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59       ` [PATCH v8 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-22 16:54           ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 18:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-24 14:52               ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-25  5:23               ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-25  5:21             ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06         ` [PATCH v9 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-26 15:12           ` [PATCH v9 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Phillip Wood
2023-03-27 16:33             ` Junio C Hamano

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