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From: Andrew Wong <andrew.w@sohovfx.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: remove CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when cherry-pick failed
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:11:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7B839D.2020808@sohovfx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120403212650.GD19858@burratino>

On 04/03/2012 05:26 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> The current CHERRY_PICK_HELP codepath removes CHERRY_PICK_HEAD to let
> its caller take care of the appropriate "commit -c" magic for
> historical reasons.  I'd be happy to see "rebase -i" stop relying on
> that.
>   
"rebase -i" doesn't rely on "commit -c". It stores the author info
inside its state dir, so when the user does a "rebase --continue", the
author info from the state dir is used.

Also, "commit -c" does override CHERRY_PICK_HEAD for author info and
message. So having CHERRY_PICK_HEAD around shouldn't affect scripts that
rely on "commit -c".

> Unfortunately, outside scripts from before CHERRY_PICK_HEAD existed
> are also allowed to use CHERRY_PICK_HELP,so the incomplete
> implementation that leaves behind a CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when the commit
> being cherry-picked resolves into nothingness is still a bug.
>   
CHERRY_PICK_HELP was introduced as a hack to allow "rebase -i" to
override what message "cherry-pick" shows, and not as something that
affects the behavior of "cherry-pick". Since it is also not documented,
it feels more like an internal implementation detail. So I suspect not
many people know about this env var and even fewer would actually use it.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-03 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31 22:56 Rebase regression in v1.7.9? Felipe Contreras
2012-02-01 17:27 ` Andrew Wong
2012-02-01 19:30   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-03-18 21:37 ` [PATCH] rebase -i: remove CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when cherry-pick failed Andrew Wong
2012-03-19 16:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-19 21:00     ` Andrew Wong
2012-03-24 20:03       ` Andrew Wong
2012-04-02 22:38         ` Andrew Wong
2012-04-02 23:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-03  5:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-03  6:32   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-04-03 14:45     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-03 21:01       ` Andrew Wong
2012-04-03 21:08         ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-03 21:12           ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-03 21:22             ` Andrew Wong
2012-04-03 21:26               ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-03 23:11                 ` Andrew Wong [this message]
2012-04-04 18:11                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-04 19:23                     ` Andrew Wong
2012-04-04 20:16                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-04 20:20                         ` Jonathan Nieder

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