Re: [PATCH 3/3] rebase -i: write better reflog messages for start

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Invoking 'git rebase -i' writes the following line to the reflog at the
> start of the operation:
>
>   rebase -i (start)
>
> This is not very useful.  Make it more informative like:
>
>   rebase -i (start): checkout master

Makes sense to me, at least within the scope of the patch context.

I am curious what breaks, though.

> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> ---
>  git-rebase--interactive.sh | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> index 5822b2c..a05a6e4 100644
> --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> @@ -837,6 +837,7 @@ comment_for_reflog start
>  
>  if test ! -z "$switch_to"
>  then
> +	GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $switch_to"
>  	output git checkout "$switch_to" -- ||
>  		die "Could not checkout $switch_to"
>  fi
> @@ -980,6 +981,7 @@ has_action "$todo" ||
>  
>  test -d "$rewritten" || test -n "$force_rebase" || skip_unnecessary_picks
>  
> +GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $onto_name"
>  output git checkout $onto || die_abort "could not detach HEAD"
>  git update-ref ORIG_HEAD $orig_head
>  do_rest