On 10/04/18 13:29, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> In the upcoming commits, we will teach the sequencer to rebase merges.
> This will be done in a very different way from the unfortunate design of
> `git rebase --preserve-merges` (which does not allow for reordering
> commits, or changing the branch topology).
>
> The main idea is to introduce new todo list commands, to support
> labeling the current revision with a given name, resetting the current
> revision to a previous state, and merging labeled revisions.
>
> This idea was developed in Git for Windows' Git garden shears (that are
> used to maintain Git for Windows' "thicket of branches" on top of
> upstream Git), and this patch is part of the effort to make it available
> to a wider audience, as well as to make the entire process more robust
> (by implementing it in a safe and portable language rather than a Unix
> shell script).
>
> This commit implements the commands to label, and to reset to, given
> revisions. The syntax is:
>
> label <name>
> reset <name>
>
> Internally, the `label <name>` command creates the ref
> `refs/rewritten/<name>`. This makes it possible to work with the labeled
> revisions interactively, or in a scripted fashion (e.g. via the todo
> list command `exec`).
>
> These temporary refs are removed upon sequencer_remove_state(), so that
> even a `git rebase --abort` cleans them up.
>
> We disallow '#' as label because that character will be used as separator
> in the upcoming `merge` command.
>
> Later in this patch series, we will mark the `refs/rewritten/` refs as
> worktree-local, to allow for interactive rebases to be run in parallel in
> worktrees linked to the same repository.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
If a label or reset command fails it is likely to be due to a
typo. Rescheduling the command would make it easier for the user to fix
the problem as they can just run 'git rebase --edit-todo'. It also
ensures that the problem has actually been fixed when the rebase
continues. I think you could do it like this
--->8---
From: Phillip Wood <phillip.w...@dunelm.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] fixup! sequencer: introduce new commands to reset the revision
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.w...@dunelm.org.uk>
---
sequencer.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 809df1ce48..e1b9be7327 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -3029,6 +3029,13 @@ static int pick_commits(struct todo_list *todo_list,
struct replay_opts *opts)
} else if (!is_noop(item->command))
return error(_("unknown command %d"), item->command);
+ if (res < 0 && (item->command == TODO_LABEL ||
+ item->command == TODO_RESET)) {
+ /* Reschedule */
+ todo_list->current--;
+ save_todo(todo_list, opts);
+ return res;
+ }
todo_list->current++;
if (res)
return res;
--
2.17.0
