Re: [PATCH/RFC 01/10] Teach rebase interactive the mark command

From: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Date: Apr 14, 2008, 09:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20080414092749.GA15098@alea.gnuu.de>
In-Reply-To: <69a88a530804131351n7d9f8188vf2bbb0174ade3ca0@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Paul,

Paul Fredrickson schrieb am Sun 13. Apr, 13:51 (-0700):

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> > Jrg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> > > > Wouldn't
> > > >
> > > > pick 5cc8f37 (init: show "Reinit" message even in ...)
> > > > mark 1
> > > > pick 18d077c (quiltimport: fix misquoting of parse...)
> > > > mark 2
> > > > reset 1
> 
> I like the idea of adding marks to an interactive rebase in general, but instead
> of adding a separate command, what if rebase *automatically* marked all the
> commits in the session:
> 
>     1: pick 5cc8f37 (init: show "Reinit" message even in ...)
>     2: pick 18d007c (quiltimport: fix misquoting of parse ...)
>     reset 1
>     merge 2

This format would be incompatible with the current format and it makes the parsing a little bit more difficult; the first column contains a mark or a command. No, I think that's not a good idea.

Have a nice day, Jörg.

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