On 2019-07-25 at 10:11:22, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> The format of the todo list is quite a bit different in the
> `--rebase-merges` mode; Let's prepare the fake editor to handle those
> todo lists properly, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  t/lib-rebase.sh | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/lib-rebase.sh b/t/lib-rebase.sh
> index 7ea30e5006..662a958575 100644
> --- a/t/lib-rebase.sh
> +++ b/t/lib-rebase.sh
> @@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ set_fake_editor () {
>  	rm -f "$1"
>  	echo 'rebase -i script before editing:'
>  	cat "$1".tmp
> -	action=pick
> +	action=\&

So we set action to "&" so we can use it as the result in the sed
expression below…

>  	for line in $FAKE_LINES; do
>  		case $line in
> -		pick|p|squash|s|fixup|f|edit|e|reword|r|drop|d)
> +		pick|p|squash|s|fixup|f|edit|e|reword|r|drop|d|label|l|reset|r|merge|m)
>  			action="$line";;
>  		exec_*|x_*|break|b)
>  			echo "$line" | sed 's/_/ /g' >> "$1";;
> @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ set_fake_editor () {
>  			echo "$action XXXXXXX False commit" >> "$1"

but then here it doesn't look like "&" is a thing we'd want to use. Is
there something I'm missing about this particular case?
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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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