Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] rebase: remove completely useless -C option

Elijah Newren [off-list ref] writes:

I'd probably go for that, but since in my mind the plan is still to
deprecate and remove the apply backend as you suggested at [1], I'm
not particularly motivated to improve/extend options specific to the
apply backend of rebase.

I still consider that deprecating and removing the "am|format-patch
pipeline" mode is a good longer term goal, but it seems we still
have some features that are only available with the mode and not the
other "sequence of cherry-pick" mode?  We'd need to port that over
to the other backend before we can wean ourselves off of the apply
backend.  Until then, ...