From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Nikita Bobko" <nikitabobko@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] `git rebase --exec` shouldn't run the exec command when there is nothing to rebase
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:09:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e22ef3c3-ee3e-d700-720c-71339abc19c0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211129.868rx7gnd5.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
On 29/11/2021 12:07, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 26 2021, Nikita Bobko wrote:
>
>> Steps:
>> git rebase HEAD --exec "echo foo"
>>
>> EXPECTED: since 0 commits are going to be rebased then I expect "foo"
>> NOT to be printed
>> ACTUAL: "foo" is printed
>
> I don't think this is a bug, but explicitly desired behavior. When you
> do:
>
> git rebase -x 'make test' BASE
>
> You expect to run 'make test' for all of BASE..HEAD inclusive of
> "base". E.g. for HEAD~1 we'll run 'make test' twice, and you know both
> your HEAD~ and HEAD passed tests.
I don't think we run 'make test' for base in that case, only after each
pick and base is not picked by the rebase.
Best Wishes
Phillip
> So why wouldn't doing the same for HEAD make sense?
>
> That being said perhaps some users would think an option or
> configuration to skip the injection of "exec" after "noop" would make
> sense in that case.
>
> But does this really have anything per-se to do with --exec? Wouldn't
> such an option/configuration be the same as rebase in general dying if
> there's no work to do?
>
> And wouldn't such a thing be more useful than a narrow change to make
> --exec a NOOP in these cases?
>
> E.g. if I've got a "topic" that has commit "A", that's since been
> integrated into my upstream and I have a script to "make test" on my
> topics, won't simply dying (and thus indicating that the topic is
> dead/integrated) be better than noop-ing?
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-30 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-26 12:44 [BUG REPORT] `git rebase --exec` shouldn't run the exec command when there is nothing to rebase Nikita Bobko
2021-11-29 12:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-30 0:14 ` Elijah Newren
2021-11-30 0:43 ` Taylor Blau
2021-11-30 3:58 ` [PATCH] sequencer: avoid adding exec commands for non-commit creating commands Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-11-30 5:13 ` Taylor Blau
2021-11-30 14:03 ` [BUG REPORT] `git rebase --exec` shouldn't run the exec command when there is nothing to rebase Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-01 11:45 ` Phillip Wood
2021-12-01 11:24 ` [PATCH] sequencer: avoid adding exec commands for non-commit creating commands Phillip Wood
2021-12-03 22:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-11-30 4:01 ` [BUG REPORT] `git rebase --exec` shouldn't run the exec command when there is nothing to rebase Elijah Newren
2021-11-30 11:09 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
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