Sergey Organov <sorga...@gmail.com> writes: >> A sentence "--force has no effect under --preserve-merges mode" does >> not tell the readers very much, either and leaves them wondering if >> it means "--preserve-merges mode always rebases every time it is >> asked, never noticing 'ah, the history is already in a good shape >> and there is no need to do anything further'" or "--preserve-merges >> mode ignores --force and refuses to recreate the history if the >> history is in the shape the mode deems is already desirable." > > In fact there is no way to force rebase when --preserve-merges is given. > Neither --force nor --no-ff has any effect. > > Maybe some clarification could be given in --preserve-merges > description, provided it's not clear that "has no effect" for --force > means that one can't force the rebase in this case.
I am not sure if that is an intended behaviour or simply a bug (I rarely use preserve-merges myself, so I offhand do not know for certain). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
