From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:35:18 GMT Subject: [PATCH] sequencer: write useful reflog message for fast-forward Message-ID: <1371580518-32455-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> The following command $ git cherry-pick --ff b8bb3f writes the following uninformative message to the reflog cherry-pick Improve it to cherry-pick: fast-forward to b8bb3f Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra --- sequencer.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index ab6f8a7..ae63ff3 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -273,12 +273,14 @@ static int fast_forward_to(const unsigned char *to, const unsigned char *from, int unborn) { struct ref_lock *ref_lock; + struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; read_cache(); if (checkout_fast_forward(from, to, 1)) exit(1); /* the callee should have complained already */ ref_lock = lock_any_ref_for_update("HEAD", unborn ? null_sha1 : from, 0); - return write_ref_sha1(ref_lock, to, "cherry-pick"); + strbuf_addf(&sb, "cherry-pick: fast-forward to %s", find_unique_abbrev(to, DEFAULT_ABBREV)); + return write_ref_sha1(ref_lock, to, sb.buf); } static int do_recursive_merge(struct commit *base, struct commit *next, -- 1.8.3.1.457.gd1408e5