Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix "rebase -i --root" corrupting root commit

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

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

>> Moreover, patch 2/2 of this series provides a more thorough fix overall
>> than Akinori, so it may make sense to replace his patch with this
>> series, though perhaps keep the test his patch adds to augment the
>> strict test of the "author" header added by this series.
>
> Johannes and I have some fixups for Akinori's patch on the branch
> fix-t3403-author-script-test at https://github.com/phillipwood/git
>
> That branch also contains a fix for the bad quoting of names with "'" in
> them. I think it would be good to somehow try and combine this series
> with those patches.

Thanks for working well together.  Always nice to see contributors
thinking beyond immediate band-aid and for longer term ;-)

> I'd really like to see a single function to read and another to write
> the author script that is shared by 'git am' and 'git rebase -i', rather
> than the two writers and three readers we have at the moment. I was
> thinking of doing that in the longer term, but given the extra bug
> you've found in read_author_script() maybe we should do that sooner
> rather than later.