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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2018-11-14 12:15:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-11-16 13:02:54 +0300 |
| commit | d8d0a546f04be2990d50425fe152af915bc3b82f (patch) | |
| tree | 43b01ed74695949bce848da8f2aa83e5974985b1 /Documentation | |
| parent | d166e6afe5f257217836ef24a73764eba390c58d (diff) | |
rebase doc: document rebase.useBuiltin
The rebase.useBuiltin variable introduced in 55071ea248 ("rebase:
start implementing it as a builtin", 2018-08-07) was turned on by
default in 5541bd5b8f ("rebase: default to using the builtin rebase",
2018-08-08), but had no documentation.
Let's document it so that users who run into any stability issues with
the C rewrite know there's an escape hatch[1], and make it clear that
needing to turn off builtin rebase means you've found a bug in git.
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/87y39w1wc2.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/rebase.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/rebase.txt b/Documentation/config/rebase.txt index 42e1ba7575..f079bf6b7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/rebase.txt @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +rebase.useBuiltin:: + Set to `false` to use the legacy shellscript implementation of + linkgit:git-rebase[1]. Is `true` by default, which means use + the built-in rewrite of it in C. ++ +The C rewrite is first included with Git version 2.20. This option +serves an an escape hatch to re-enable the legacy version in case any +bugs are found in the rewrite. This option and the shellscript version +of linkgit:git-rebase[1] will be removed in some future release. ++ +If you find some reason to set this option to `false` other than +one-off testing you should report the behavior difference as a bug in +git. + rebase.stat:: Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. False by default. |