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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. |