To avoid problems with short SHA-1s that become non-unique during the rebase, we rewrite the todo script with short/long SHA-1s before and after letting the user edit the script. Since SHA-1s are not intuitive for humans, rebase -i also provides the onelines (commit message subjects) in the script, purely for the user's convenience.
It is very possible to generate a todo script via different means than rebase -i and then to let rebase -i run with it; In this case, these onelines are not required. And this is where the expand/collapse machinery has a bug: it *expects* that oneline, and failing to find one reuses the previous SHA-1 as "oneline". It was most likely an oversight, and made implementation in the (quite limiting) shell script language less convoluted. However, we are about to reimplement performance-critical parts in C (and due to spawning a git.exe process for every single line of the todo script, the expansion/collapsing of the SHA-1s *is* performance-hampering on Windows), therefore let's fix this bug to make cross-validation with the C version of that functionality possible. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> --- git-rebase--interactive.sh | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index c40b1fd1d2e..214af0372ba 100644 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -760,7 +760,12 @@ transform_todo_ids () { ;; *) sha1=$(git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$@" ${rest%%[ ]*}) && - rest="$sha1 ${rest#*[ ]}" + if test "a$rest" = "a${rest#*[ ]}" + then + rest=$sha1 + else + rest="$sha1 ${rest#*[ ]}" + fi ;; esac printf '%s\n' "$command${rest:+ }$rest" -- 2.12.2.windows.2.406.gd14a8f8640f