rebase.instructionFormat. A customized instruction format will automatically
have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
+--recreate-merges[=(rebase-cousins|no-rebase-cousins)]::
+ Recreate merge commits instead of flattening the history by replaying
+ merges. Merge conflict resolutions or manual amendments to merge
+ commits are not recreated automatically, but have to be recreated
+ manually.
++
+By default, or when `no-rebase-cousins` was specified, commits which do not
+have `<upstream>` as direct ancestor keep their original branch point.
+If the `rebase-cousins` mode is turned on, such commits are rebased onto
+`<upstream>` (or `<onto>`, if specified).
+
-p::
--preserve-merges::
Recreate merge commits instead of flattening the history by replaying
The todo list presented by `--preserve-merges --interactive` does not
represent the topology of the revision graph. Editing commits and
rewording their commit messages should work fine, but attempts to
-reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results.
+reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. Use
+--recreate-merges for a more faithful representation.
For example, an attempt to rearrange
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