Merge branch 'js/retire-preserve-merges'

The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.

* js/retire-preserve-merges:
  sequencer: restrict scope of a formerly public function
  rebase: remove a no-longer-used function
  rebase: stop mentioning the -p option in comments
  rebase: remove obsolete code comment
  rebase: drop the internal `rebase--interactive` command
  git-svn: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
  rebase: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
  pull: remove support for `--rebase=preserve`
  tests: stop testing `git rebase --preserve-merges`
  remote: warn about unhandled branch.<name>.rebase values
  t5520: do not use `pull.rebase=preserve`

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh b/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh
index e78c7e3796..48b76f8232 100755
--- a/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh
+++ b/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh
@@ -36,11 +36,10 @@ commit_message() {
 # where the root commit adds three files: topic_1.t, topic_2.t and topic_3.t.
 #
 # This commit history is then rebased onto `topic_3` with the
-# `-Xsubtree=files_subtree` option in three different ways:
+# `-Xsubtree=files_subtree` option in two different ways:
 #
-# 1. using `--preserve-merges`
-# 2. using `--preserve-merges` and --keep-empty
-# 3. without specifying a rebase backend
+# 1. without specifying a rebase backend
+# 2. using the `--rebase-merges` backend
 
 test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	test_commit README &&
@@ -69,25 +68,6 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty
 '
 
-# FAILURE: Does not preserve topic_4.
-test_expect_failure REBASE_P 'Rebase -Xsubtree --preserve-merges --onto commit' '
-	reset_rebase &&
-	git checkout -b rebase-preserve-merges to-rebase &&
-	git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --preserve-merges --onto files-main main &&
-	verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~)" = "topic_4" &&
-	verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD)" = "files_subtree/topic_5"
-'
-
-# FAILURE: Does not preserve topic_4.
-test_expect_failure REBASE_P 'Rebase -Xsubtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto commit' '
-	reset_rebase &&
-	git checkout -b rebase-keep-empty to-rebase &&
-	git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto files-main main &&
-	verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~2)" = "topic_4" &&
-	verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~)" = "files_subtree/topic_5" &&
-	verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD)" = "Empty commit"
-'
-
 test_expect_success 'Rebase -Xsubtree --empty=ask --onto commit' '
 	reset_rebase &&
 	git checkout -b rebase-onto to-rebase &&