From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:48:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] revert: Introduce skip-all to cleanup sequencer data
Message-ID: <201106210848.50884.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <1308636458-19668-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 21 June 2011 08:07:38 Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> When the sequencer data is persisted after a failed cherry-pick, don't
> allow subsequent calls to cherry-pick to clobber this state: instead,
> error out with the complaint that an existing cherry-pick is in
> progress.  To fix existing tests and the "rebase -i" script, introduce
> a new "--skip-all" command-line option to call after every failed
> cherry-pick; it essentially clears out the sequencer data, thereby
> allowing subsequent calls.

Nitpick: I'd rather call it "--stop" or "--quit" (or maybe "--reset") to 
convey the meaning that we get out of cherry-pick mode.

Thanks,
Christian.