diff --git a/Documentation/config/rebase.txt b/Documentation/config/rebase.txt
index f079bf6b7e..331d250e04 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/rebase.txt
@@ -64,3 +64,8 @@ instead of:
 -------------------------------------------
 +
 Defaults to false.
+
+rebase.rescheduleFailedExec::
+	Automatically reschedule `exec` commands that failed. This only makes
+	sense in interactive mode (or when an `--exec` option was provided).
+	This is the same as specifying the `--reschedule-failed-exec` option.
diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c
index cc33730743..4839e52555 100644
--- a/builtin/rebase.c
+++ b/builtin/rebase.c
@@ -677,6 +677,11 @@ static int rebase_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (!strcmp(var, "rebase.reschedulefailedexec")) {
+		opts->reschedule_failed_exec = git_config_bool(var, value);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	return git_default_config(var, value, data);
 }
 
diff --git a/git-legacy-rebase.sh b/git-legacy-rebase.sh
index 699fc4da7e..37db5a7ca4 100755
--- a/git-legacy-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-legacy-rebase.sh
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ case "$(git config --bool commit.gpgsign)" in
 true)	gpg_sign_opt=-S ;;
 *)	gpg_sign_opt= ;;
 esac
+test "$(git config --bool rebase.reschedulefailedexec)" = "true" &&
+reschedule_failed_exec=--reschedule-failed-exec
 . git-rebase--common
 
 read_basic_state () {
diff --git a/t/t3418-rebase-continue.sh b/t/t3418-rebase-continue.sh
index 54b26a9284..bdaa511bb0 100755
--- a/t/t3418-rebase-continue.sh
+++ b/t/t3418-rebase-continue.sh
@@ -257,7 +257,12 @@ test_expect_success 'the todo command "break" works' '
 test_expect_success '--reschedule-failed-exec' '
 	test_when_finished "git rebase --abort" &&
 	test_must_fail git rebase -x false --reschedule-failed-exec HEAD^ &&
-	grep "^exec false" .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo
+	grep "^exec false" .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo &&
+	git rebase --abort &&
+	test_must_fail git -c rebase.rescheduleFailedExec=true \
+		rebase -x false HEAD^ 2>err &&
+	grep "^exec false" .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo &&
+	test_i18ngrep "has been rescheduled" err
 '
 
 test_done