From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 06:40:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] rebase -i: demonstrate obscure loose object cache bug
Message-ID: <0f7870b7-f92a-ad63-7854-300c202cb4a8@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190313163516.GA26045@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 13.03.19 um 17:35 schrieb Jeff King:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 05:11:44PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> As a further improvement, is there a good reason for why we wouldn't
>> pass something down to the oid machinery to say "we're only interested
>> in commits". I have a WIP series somewhere to generalize that more, but
>> e.g.  here locally:
> 
> We have get_oid_commit() and get_oid_committish() already. Should rebase
> just be using those? (I think we probably want "commit()", because we do
> not expect a "pick" line to have a tag, for example.

'pick' needs all the power of revision expressions. Not all too
infrequently I do insert a pick line with a rev expression argument.
Assuming that the resolved object is a commit is too strict.

-- Hannes