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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "Giuseppe Crinò" <giuscri@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Feature request: Allow to update commit ID in messages when rebasing
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:56:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sw8bbby.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGV3M54XhRMDXdhbfTon5nRV59VOjw8W4YrNP63TqPYm8pxd8Q@mail.gmail.com>


On Wed, Apr 17 2019, Giuseppe Crinò wrote:

> The feature I'm asking is to add an extra-step during rebasing,
> checking whether there's a reference to a commit that's not going to
> be included in history and asks the user whether the heuristics is
> correct and if she wants to update those references.
>
> Scenario: it can happen for a commit message to contain the ID of an
> ancestor commit. A typical example is a commit with the message
> "revert 01a9fe8". If 01a9fe8 and the commit that reverts it are
> involved in a rebase the message "revert 01a9fe8" is no longer valid
> -- the old 01a9fe8 has now a different hash. This will most likely be
> ignored by the person who's rebasing but will let the other people
> reading history confused.

This would be useful. Done properly we'd need some machinery/command to
extract the commit id parts from the free-text of the commit
message. That would be useful for other parts of git, e.g. as discussed
here:
https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqvaxp9oyp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-17 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-17 20:35 Feature request: Allow to update commit ID in messages when rebasing Giuseppe Crinò
2019-04-17 20:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2019-04-18  2:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-18 17:32     ` Jakub Narebski
2019-04-18 17:58       ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-04-19 10:44         ` Jakub Narebski
2019-04-18 18:00       ` Phil Hord

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