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Re: [PATCH 0/8] Sequencer Foundations

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
May 12, 2011, 08:41 UTC
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Hi,
Christian Couder wrote:
> I think that the risk at this point might be to overengineer things
> and to lose time, and then we will perhaps find out that we need to do
> some refactoring of the merge_recursive API anyway.

I agree with the general principle... let's see if I understand the details of what you are saying.

> If we have cherry-pick with --abort, --continue and --skip that just
> works as well or nearly as well (because it's new) as other stuff it
> will be already a very good thing.

Does "other stuff" mean scripts like "git rebase"? If I understand correctly, "git rebase" updates the $dotest directory before each cherry-pick, unlike this series which only updates $dotest after a failed cherry-pick.

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> And with enough tests we will
> hopefully be able to build and refactor safely after that. Maybe we
> will eventually find out that what you suggest is in fact needed even
> for cherry-pick with --abort, --continue and --skip, but for now I
> would prefer trying to make it work with as few changes and work as
> possible.

I suspect that refactoring everything to use error() in place of die() requires more risky changes and work than updating .git/sequencer/ between cherry-picks. Of course I can easily be wrong.

Hoping that is clearer, Jonathan

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Message 33 of 39 in “Sequencer Foundations”
  1. 0/8 Sequencer FoundationsRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  2. 1/8 revert: Improve error handling by cascading errors upwardsRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  3. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 19, 2011
  6. 2/8 revert: Make "commit" and "me" local variablesRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  9. Daniel BarkalowMay 13, 2011
  10. 3/8 revert: Introduce a struct to parse command-line options intoRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  11. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  13. Jonathan NiederMay 13, 2011
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  15. 4/8 revert: Separate cmdline argument handling from the functional codeRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  16. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  18. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  19. Jonathan NiederMay 13, 2011
  20. 5/8 revert: Catch incompatible command-line options earlyRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  21. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  22. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  23. 6/8 revert: Introduce head, todo, done files to persist stateRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  24. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  25. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  26. 7/8 revert: Implement parsing --continue, --abort and --skipRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  27. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  28. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 13, 2011
  29. Jonathan NiederMay 13, 2011
  30. 8/8 revert: Implement --abort processingRamkumar Ramachandra, May 11, 2011
  31. Jonathan NiederMay 11, 2011
  32. Christian CouderMay 12, 2011
  33. Jonathan NiederMay 12, 2011
  34. Jonathan NiederMay 12, 2011
  35. Christian CouderMay 13, 2011
  36. Jonathan NiederMay 13, 2011
  37. Christian CouderMay 16, 2011
  38. Jonathan NiederMay 19, 2011
  39. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 20, 2011

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