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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] Sequencer Foundations
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:19:05 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110411044900.GA20939@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104110518.04413.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Hi Christian,

Christian Couder writes:
> On Sunday 10 April 2011 17:11:46 Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've started working on building a sequencer for Git.  
> 
> So you are starting the GSoC early! Great!
> When (or before) it really starts, just make sure you put your work on a 
> public Git repository and you send status updates regularly (weekly if 
> possible).

Ofcourse.  I've already discussed many of these issues last year [1].
The work corresponding to this particular series can be found in the
'sequencer' branch on my GitHub fork [2].  Since the results haven't
been announced, and the coding period hasn't begun, this work should
be treated like "normal work" -- I just wrote it this weekend.

> > 3. From the format of the TODO and DONE files, one more thing should
> > be clear- I'm trying to stick to a slight variation of the 'rebase -i'
> > format.  This part will go into the sequencer.  Then I'll use a
> > cherry-pick specific file to keep the command-line options.  Yes, I'm
> > trying to work on Daniel's idea [3] from the very start.  Is this a
> > good idea?
> 
> I think that the TODO and DONE file format will need at one point to include 
> options and it is simpler if this change is done early. Using a cherry-pick 
> specific file to keep the options is not very generic for a sequencer that could 
> be used for many things.
> 
> For example, as we have rebase --interactive, we will probably want to have 
> cherry-pick --interactive, and when editing the TODO file we might want to use 
> different cherry-pick options when picking different commits.

Point noted -- I shouldn't narrow down the various things I can do
with a single commit early on and lock us into a more restrictive
design.  However, I'm not in favor of making it too generic; I
certainly wouldn't like to edit an instruction sheet that looks like
this:

cherry-pick -m 1 -s -r 83a4fe9
revert -n 3a6fe42
cherry-pick -x --ff dacfe41
cherry-pick -s recursive -Xpatience b31d4e2

It'll become impossible to tell which options are disallowed over what
else, and it'll become a nightmare to debug when something goes wrong.
My idea is that we add commit-specific options in an optional
backward-compatible manner later:

pick 83a4fe9
revert 3a6fe42 # -n
pick dacfe41 # -s
pick b31d4e2

That way, there'll be two sets of options:

1. One "global" set of command-line switches that applies
to all the commits, which will be written to a command-specific
location.  The sequencer itself knows nothing about this.

2. Optional commit-specific stuff that's passed in the
form of a (modified) commit_list to the sequencer API to write to the
todo/ done files.

Do you like this idea?

> This would also make the different cherry-pick options available when using 
> rebase --interactive once it uses the sequencer.
> 
> > [1]:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170758/focus=170908
> > [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162183 [3]:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170758/focus=170834
> 
> [3] is missing here.

Your email client is perhaps wrapping too aggressively? It's fine in
my original email [3].

-- Ram

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142623/focus=142821
[2]: https://github.com/artagnon/git
[2]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171255

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-11  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-10 15:11 [RFC PATCH 00/11] Sequencer Foundations Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 01/11] revert: Avoid calling die; return error instead Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 19:14   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-08 12:04     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-11 20:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 02/11] revert: Lose global variables "commit" and "me" Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-11  3:24   ` Christian Couder
2011-04-11  8:57     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 03/11] revert: Introduce a struct to parse command-line options into Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 19:21   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-08 12:18     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-11 21:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-08 12:09     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 04/11] revert: Separate cmdline argument handling from the functional code Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 05/11] revert: Catch incompatible command-line options early Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-11 21:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-08 11:47     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 06/11] revert: Implement parsing --continue, --abort and --skip Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 07/11] revert: Handle conflict resolutions more elegantly Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 08/11] usage: Introduce error_errno correspoding to die_errno Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 09/11] revert: Write head, todo, done files Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 10/11] revert: Give noop a default value while argument parsing Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 15:11 ` [PATCH 11/11] revert: Implement --abort processing Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 19:33 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] Sequencer Foundations Daniel Barkalow
2011-04-11  8:55   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-10 19:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-11  1:16   ` Daniel Barkalow
2011-04-11  6:42     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-11  9:07   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-11  3:18 ` Christian Couder
2011-04-11  4:49   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2011-04-11  6:20     ` Christian Couder
2011-04-11 10:48       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-11  5:30   ` Daniel Barkalow
2011-04-11  5:38     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-11  6:34       ` Daniel Barkalow

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