On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 9:38 AM Phillip Wood [off-list ref] wrote:

On 12/03/2023 20:57, Alex Henrie wrote:

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More voices would be helpful here. Does anyone else have an opinion on
how likely it is that the default rebase-merges mode will change in
the future? Or on whether rebase.rebaseMerges should be allowed to
affect --rebase-merges in order to facilitate such a change?

Getting other's views would indeed be helpful

My view is that we shouldn't make assumptions about what is going to
happen in the future. Most of the UI design warts of Git come
precisely from the fact that somebody in the past did not think
something in the future would happen, and when it does the excuse to
not do what's sensible in the UI is "it's too late now".

I would vote for whatever is more flexible to whatever happens in the
future, not something that seems to make sense now, but adds yet more
inertia and later on becomes yet another wart in the list of "oh, if
only we had considered that back in 2023".

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras