From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Olliver Schinagl" <oliver@schinagl.nl>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: allow a comment after a "break" command
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:29:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59bf57cb-fd8b-b814-b45e-c8088e743d5c@dunelm.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq358fu4vr.fsf@gitster.g>
Hi Junio
On 12/01/2023 15:52, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>>
>> When adding a "break" command to a rebase todo list it can be helpful to
>> add a comment as a reminder as to what the user was planning to do when
>> the rebase stopped. Anything following the command is interpreted as an
>> argument to the command and results in an error. Change this so that a
>> "break command may be followed by "# <comment>" in the same way as
>> a "merge" command. Requiring the comment to begin with "# " allows the
>> break command to start taking an argument in the future if that turns
>> out to be useful.
>
> Why do we special case "break" and not give the same "comment is
> emitted when the control reaches the insn in the todo list" for
> others like "exec" or even "pick"?
I think the break command is a bit different to the others as it stops
the rebase and so the user may want a reminder of what they were
planning to do when it stopped. The other commands just pick a commit or
run a command so I'm not sure what the comment would be for.
> Another comment with devil's advocate hat on is if we are better off
> not adding "# this comment is emitted" at all, and instead do
>
> pick ...
> pick ...
> exec echo this comment is emitted
> break
> pick ...
That's a neat idea, maybe we should just add some documentation
suggesting users do that?
Best Wishes
Phillip
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-12 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-12 10:36 [PATCH] rebase -i: allow a comment after a "break" command Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2023-01-12 11:14 ` Andrei Rybak
2023-01-12 16:26 ` Phillip Wood
2023-01-12 11:26 ` Olliver Schinagl
2023-01-12 12:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-12 12:47 ` Olliver Schinagl
2023-01-12 16:20 ` Phillip Wood
2023-01-12 16:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-12 18:04 ` Elijah Newren
2023-01-12 17:14 ` Elijah Newren
2023-01-13 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-14 2:47 ` Elijah Newren
2023-01-12 15:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-12 16:29 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2023-01-12 16:46 ` Jeff King
2023-01-13 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-13 20:29 ` Sergey Organov
2023-01-17 15:33 ` Phillip Wood
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