"W. Trevor King" [off-list ref] writes:
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As the command takes other options whose names begin with 'r', I
thought the longer term plan was to stop letting "--rebase" squat on
short and sweet "-r" and leaving it undocumented (even though the
short one was added by mistake) was meant to be the first step in
that process.
But maybe I am confusing an undocumented single-letter option from
some other subcommand. Anybody remembers?
Perhaps you are remembering:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 02:33:45AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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Ah, this reminds me of another thing I noticed when I saw that
...
No. The discussion might or might not be the "-r" option to
"submodule update", but even if it were so, I wasn't refering to
that exchange but something more in the further past.