Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] cherry-pick: add `--empty` for more robust redundant commit handling

[phillip.wood123@gmail.com]

Hi Brian

On 10/03/2024 18:41, Brian Lyles wrote:
> The ultimate goal of this series is to allow git-cherry-pick(1) to
> automatically drop redundant commits. The mechanism chosen is an
> `--empty` option that provides the same flexibility as the `--empty`
> options for git-rebase(1) and git-am(1).
> 
> Some secondary goals are to improve the consistency in the values and
> documentation for this option across the three commands.
> 
> See "Does extending `--empty` to git-cherry-pick make sense?" [1] for
> some context for why this option is desired in git-cherry-pick(1).
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAHPHrSevBdQF0BisR8VK=jM=wj1dTUYEVrv31gLerAzL9=Cd8Q@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Along the way, I (with some help from Elijah and Phillip) found a few
> other things in the docs and related sequencer code to clean up.
> 
> The primary difference from v2 of this patch is that I no longer make
> any attempt to change the behavior of `--keep-redundant-commits`
> implying `--allow-empty`, and the new `--empty=keep` will likewise also
> imply `--allow-empty`. See "Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] cherry-pick: add
> `--empty` for more robust redundant commit handling" [2] and the
> previous messages in that thread for more context. Patch 6/8 from v2 is
> dropped entirely, with some adjustments to the ultimate patch in this
> series as well.

This is looking good, I've left a couple of comments but there is 
nothing major.

Thanks for working on it

Phillip

> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqttltu7zs.fsf@gitster.g/
> 
> Brian Lyles (7):
>    docs: address inaccurate `--empty` default with `--exec`
>    docs: clean up `--empty` formatting in git-rebase(1) and git-am(1)
>    rebase: update `--empty=ask` to `--empty=stop`
>    sequencer: treat error reading HEAD as unborn branch
>    sequencer: do not require `allow_empty` for redundant commit options
>    cherry-pick: enforce `--keep-redundant-commits` incompatibility
>    cherry-pick: add `--empty` for more robust redundant commit handling
> 
>   Documentation/git-am.txt          | 20 ++++++----
>   Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt | 30 +++++++++++----
>   Documentation/git-rebase.txt      | 26 ++++++++-----
>   builtin/rebase.c                  | 16 +++++---
>   builtin/revert.c                  | 38 +++++++++++++++++-
>   sequencer.c                       | 64 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>   t/t3424-rebase-empty.sh           | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh     | 14 +++++--
>   t/t3505-cherry-pick-empty.sh      | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   t/t3510-cherry-pick-sequence.sh   | 32 ++++++++++++++++
>   10 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
>