docs: say that --rebase=preserve is deprecated

As of Git v2.22.0, the `--preserve-merges` backend of `git rebase` will
be officially deprecated in favor of the `--rebase-merges` backend.
Consequently, `git pull --rebase=preserve` will also be deprected. State
this explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Schindelin 2019-05-28 05:42:15 -07:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ When set to `merges`, rebase using `git rebase --rebase-merges` so that
the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
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When set to preserve, rebase with the `--preserve-merges` option passed
to `git rebase` so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened.
When set to `preserve` (deprecated in favor of `merges`), rebase with the
`--preserve-merges` option passed to `git rebase` so that locally created
merge commits will not be flattened.
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When false, merge the current branch into the upstream branch.
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