Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] fix "rebase -i --root" corrupting root commit

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 6:06 AM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> wrote:
> On 31/07/18 08:33, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > Patch 2/4 of this series conflicts with Akinori MUSHA's
> > 'am/sequencer-author-script-fix' which takes a stab at fixing one of the
> > four (or so) bugs fixed by this series (namely, adding a missing closing
> > quote to GIT_AUTHOR_DATE in "rebase-merge/author-script"). That patch
> > probably ought to be dropped (without prejudice) in favor of this series
> > for the following reasons:
> > [...]
> > The test added by Akinori MUSHA's patch may still have value, and it may
> > make sense to re-submit it, however, doing so need not hold up this
> > (higher priority) series.
>
> Yes I think it does, also the patch that Johannes and I have on top of
> it to fix the quoting of "'" in write_author_script() relies on fixing
> the missing trailing quote and handling of "'" at the same time,
> hopefully we can get that rebased on top of these asap.

I'm not sure if "Yes I think it does" means that Akinori's test has
value or if it means that this series should be held back waiting for
other changes built atop it.

Anyhow, thanks for reading over the series. I appreciate it even if
our "sense of priority" doesn't always align (as evidenced by your
review comments and my responses).