js/retire-preserve-merges, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2021, #02; Wed, 8)

Hi Junio,

On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

* js/retire-preserve-merges (2021-09-07) 11 commits
 - sequencer: restrict scope of a formerly public function
 - rebase: remove a no-longer-used function
 - rebase: stop mentioning the -p option in comments
 - rebase: remove obsolete code comment
 - rebase: drop the internal `rebase--interactive` command
 - git-svn: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
 - rebase: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
 - pull: remove support for `--rebase=preserve`
 - tests: stop testing `git rebase --preserve-merges`
 - remote: warn about unhandled branch.<name>.rebase values
 - t5520: do not use `pull.rebase=preserve`

 The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.

 Will merge to 'next'?

I think so, given the rate of reviews still trickling in tending toward
zero.

We probably want to keep it in `next` for quite a while, too, to make sure
that people get the memo.

Ciao,
Dscho