Re: [PATCH] docs: Clarify what git-rebase's "--preserve-merges" does

[Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1. How to calculate the set of commits to rebase.
>>
>> 2. How to rebase merge commits.
>>
>> Can we leave (1) for a while at its current state and focus on (2)?
>
> Perhaps.  You would have to be careful though, so let me think aloud
> a bit...

Yeah, care should be taken indeed, and it's not trivial to foresee all
possible troubles from changing to cherry-picking of merge commits.
However, in general it looks like it's better to get some conflict to
deal with from cherry-picking than to miss essential changes silently as
it sometimes happens now.

I also wonder if git remembers in merge commits what merge strategy was
used? If not, then it's yet another argument in favor of cherry-picking.

-- Sergey.