From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
George Spelvin <lkml@SDF.ORG>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: rebase -i inside of rebase -i
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:01:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0eef4721-1646-48f2-1102-71159d06b049@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2003281510260.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
Hi all,
On 28/03/2020 14:25, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, George Spelvin wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 08:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, George Spelvin wrote:
>>>> My assumption has been that, for simplicity, there would only be one
>>>> commit in progress, and aborting it aborts everything.
>>> But that does not necessarily make sense. Imagine that you rebase the
>>> latest three commits, interactively. Then a merge conflict in the third
>>> makes you realize that the first commit is no longer needed.
>>>
>>> Enter the nested rebase. You manually re-schedule the failed `pick` via
>>> `git rebase --edit-todo` and then run the nested rebase: `git reset --hard
>>> && git rebase -i --nested HEAD~2`.
>>>
>>> Except that you made a typo and said `HEAD~3` instead of `HEAD~2`. You
>>> delete the entire todo list to get a chance to restart the nested rebase.
>>>
>>> But now the entire rebase gets aborted?
>> Um, this example is not persuasive. If I just leave the excess commit at
>> the front of the to-do list, then it will be recreated without change.
> There are _many_ ways to mess up a nested rebase, including (but not
> limited to) `--onto`, forgetting `-r`, editing the todo list too much in
> an editor without undo.
>
> If you are suggesting that a nested `git rebase -i` would not need a way
> to abort _just_ the nested rebase, then I fear we must stop the
> conversation right here. That's not going to fly.
>
>> (Note that if I choose too *small* a nubmer by accident, I can insert a
>> "break" at the front of the list and then rebase --nested starting from
>> there.)
> There are many ways how a savvy user would be able to work around the
> absence of a proper way to abort a nested rebase. The common theme for all
> of those is:
>
> - they are all quite involved and require knowledge of internals
>
> - they won't change the fact that it would be seriously negligent for us
> to _not_ offer a way to abort nested rebases.
>
Perhaps we can go the other way on this one.
I'd agree that attempting to nest (misunderstood mistaken) rebases is
digging a too deep hole that we'd not get out of. However we do have
other rebases available, specifically the "rebasing merges"
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_rebasing_merges.
I know rebasing merges is way down the man page, but it has all the
power and flexibility needed _if_ we can step across from the mistaken
rebase step (we are at the command prompt aren't we?) into the rebasing
merge mode.
This will require a little bit of expansion of the insn (instruction)
sheet so as to _include commented lines of the rebase steps completed_
so far, along with the labels, resets, merges, etc, so that the user can
_see_ where they they are within their failed progress (along with a
title line telling them their initial command and that they are now on a
rebasing merge insn;-).
From there they can update the insn to reset back to the correct point,
redo the correct picks, and then get back to their remaining rebase steps.
It's a thought anyway.
HTH
Philip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-20 22:30 Feature request: rebase -i inside of rebase -i George Spelvin
2020-03-20 22:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-20 23:35 ` George Spelvin
2020-03-21 10:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-21 17:56 ` George Spelvin
2020-03-25 19:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-26 0:18 ` George Spelvin
2020-03-28 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-28 16:30 ` George Spelvin
2020-03-31 0:00 ` George Spelvin
2020-03-31 10:57 ` Philip Oakley
2020-03-31 13:36 ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-01 16:43 ` Philip Oakley
2020-04-07 15:54 ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-04 12:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-04 12:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-04 17:41 ` George Spelvin
2020-04-06 10:40 ` Sebastien Bruckert
2020-04-06 15:24 ` George Spelvin
2020-04-07 9:16 ` Sebastien Bruckert
2020-04-07 19:03 ` George Spelvin
2020-03-30 14:01 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2020-03-30 18:18 ` George Spelvin
2020-03-30 21:53 ` Philip Oakley
2020-03-21 8:47 ` Johannes Sixt
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