Re: [PATCH 3/3] cherry-pick --continue: remember options

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

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> Remember --allow-empty, --allow-empty-message and
>> --keep-redundant-commits when cherry-pick stops for a conflict
>> resolution.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>
> This whole patch series makes sense to me.

Yes, the changes look sensible (provided if it is the sensible goal
to make --continue use the same set of options, that is).

> And it is especially nice that you make it easy to verify that there is a
> bug in the first place, by separating the concern of demonstrating it from
> the concern to fix it.

For a multi-patch series, breaking out the verification test out of
the fixing patch is OK.  It is a different story for a simple change
that could be made in a single step to artificially separate the
test into a separate step.  An early "test_expect_failure" would not
stop the test when applied to a different codebase as a standalone
"does the breakage exist in this unrelated version?" even if the
"test only" patch might appear easier to apply (as opposed to
applying only the t/ part of the patch that expects success and
seeing it actually fail).