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From: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck to `--edit-todo' and co.
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:26:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69ceed35-ced4-51e7-d724-1818ae45e9a6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce6bdffd-0a04-803c-4a1e-0959342db01f@gmail.com>

Hi Phillip,

Le 24/07/2019 à 15:29, Phillip Wood a écrit :
> Hi Alban
> 
> Thanks for working on this, it's great to see you back on the list and I
> think it would be a useful addition to rebase. Unfortunately I'm not
> sure about this implementation though (although the early bug fix
> patches are useful in their own right)
> 
> On 17/07/2019 15:39, Alban Gruin wrote:
>> To prevent mistakes when editing a branch, rebase features a knob,
>> rebase.missingCommitsCheck, to warn the user if a commit was dropped.
>> Unfortunately, this check is only effective for the initial edit, which
>> means that if you edit the todo list at a later point of the rebase and
>> dropped a commit, no warnings or errors would be issued.
>>
>> This adds the ability to check if commits were dropped when resuming a
>> rebase (with `rebase --continue'), when editing the todo list (with
>> `rebase --edit-todo'), or when reloading the todo list after an `exec'
>> command.
> 
> I'm not sure if we really need to check the todo list when continuing or
> after an exec command.

In which case I don’t really understand why there is an `error' mode if
one can completely bypass it with `--continue'.

> The official way to edit the todo list is to run
> 'git rebase --edit-todo' and I'm not sure if we support scripts writing
> to .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo directly. If we only support the
> check after --edit-todo then I think the implementation can be
> simplified as we can just write a copy of the file before it is edited
> and don't need to check .git/rebase-merge/done. Additionally that would
> catch commits that are added by the user and then deleted in a later
> edit. They wont be in the original list so I don't think this series
> will detect their deletion.
> 

True -- but with this solution, if a bad command is introduced, there
will be false negatives.  Given the pitfall of my solution, this should
be an acceptable trade-off.

> At the extreme I have a script around rebase that runs 'rebase -i HEAD'
> and then fills in the todo list with a fake editor that adds 'reset ...'
> as the first line to set the starting point of the rebase. I think
> dscho's garden-shears script does something similar. Under the proposed
> scheme if I subsequently edit the todo list it will not catch any
> deleted commits as the original list is empty.
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Phillip
> 

Cheers,
Alban


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-25 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-17 14:39 [RFC PATCH 0/9] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck to `--edit-todo' and co Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] t3404: demonstrate that --edit-todo does not check for dropped commits Alban Gruin
2019-07-18 18:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-19 18:12     ` Alban Gruin
2019-07-19 19:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] t3429: demonstrate that rebase exec " Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] sequencer: update `total_nr' when adding an item to a todo list Alban Gruin
2019-07-18 19:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-19 18:12     ` Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] sequencer: update `done_nr' when skipping commands in " Alban Gruin
2019-07-18 19:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-19 18:13     ` Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] sequencer: move the code writing total_nr on the disk to a new function Alban Gruin
2019-07-18 20:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-19 18:14     ` Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] sequencer: add a parameter to sequencer_continue() to accept a todo list Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] rebase-interactive: todo_list_check() also uses the done list Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with --edit-todo Alban Gruin
2019-07-17 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] sequencer: have read_populate_todo() check for dropped commits Alban Gruin
2019-07-24 13:29 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck to `--edit-todo' and co Phillip Wood
2019-07-25  9:01   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-07-25 20:26   ` Alban Gruin [this message]
2019-07-29  9:38     ` Phillip Wood
2019-09-24 20:15       ` Alban Gruin
2019-11-04  9:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck to `--edit-todo' Alban Gruin
2019-11-04  9:54   ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] t3404: demonstrate that --edit-todo does not check for dropped commits Alban Gruin
2019-11-04  9:54   ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with --edit-todo Alban Gruin
2019-11-05 14:20     ` Phillip Wood
2019-12-02 23:47   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck Alban Gruin
2019-12-02 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] sequencer: move check_todo_list_from_file() to rebase-interactive.c Alban Gruin
2019-12-06 14:38       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-02 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with `rebase --edit-todo' Alban Gruin
2019-12-04 19:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-09 16:00         ` Phillip Wood
2020-01-09 21:13           ` Alban Gruin
2020-01-10 17:13             ` Phillip Wood
2020-01-10 21:31               ` Alban Gruin
2020-01-11 14:44                 ` Phillip Wood
2019-12-09 16:08       ` Phillip Wood
2019-12-04 21:51     ` [PATCH v3 0/2] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck Junio C Hamano
2019-12-05 23:15       ` Alban Gruin
2019-12-06 10:41         ` Phillip Wood
2019-12-06 14:30           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-11 17:39     ` [PATCH v4 " Alban Gruin
2020-01-11 17:39       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] sequencer: move check_todo_list_from_file() to rebase-interactive.c Alban Gruin
2020-01-11 17:39       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with `rebase --edit-todo' Alban Gruin
2020-01-19 16:28         ` Phillip Wood
2020-01-25 15:17           ` Alban Gruin
2020-01-25 17:54       ` [PATCH v5 0/2] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck Alban Gruin
2020-01-25 17:54         ` [PATCH v5 1/2] sequencer: move check_todo_list_from_file() to rebase-interactive.c Alban Gruin
2020-01-25 17:54         ` [PATCH v5 2/2] rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with `rebase --edit-todo' Alban Gruin
2020-01-26 10:04         ` [PATCH v5 0/2] rebase -i: extend rebase.missingCommitsCheck Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-27 21:39           ` Alban Gruin
2020-01-28 22:46             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-28 21:12         ` [PATCH v6 " Alban Gruin
2020-01-28 21:12           ` [PATCH v6 1/2] sequencer: move check_todo_list_from_file() to rebase-interactive.c Alban Gruin
2020-01-28 21:12           ` [PATCH v6 2/2] rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with `rebase --edit-todo' Alban Gruin

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