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Re: [PATCH] Warnings before rebasing -i published history

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Jun 8, 2012, 07:32 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> a écrit :
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>> +	do
>> +		test -n "$sha1" || break
>> +		if test -n "$(git branch -r --contains "$sha1")"
>> +		then
>> +			printf "%s\n" "$(sed -e "/"$sha1"/ s|$| [Published]|" "$1")" >"$1"
>> +		fi
>> +	done
>
> What's inside $() looks like it wants to say something like
>
> 	sed -e "/ $sha1 /s/$/ [Published]/" "$1"
>
> but it has a few fishy double-quotes that makes it unclear why $sha1
> wants to be outside the quotes.
>
> Why does it need 'printf "%s" $()' in the first place?  Wouldn't
>
> 	sed ... >"$1"
> sufficient?

The fact is that the input of sed is "$1" itself. An redirecting the output of sed to the same input doesn't seem to work.

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> The logic is merely _guessing_ that the commit could have been
> published, no?  The particular remote repository the test happens to
> find may not be for consumption by other people.
>
> I am afraid that doing this would send users a wrong message that is
> unnecessarily alarming, especially the marker says "Published" as if
> it were a confirmed fact.

True. It would be annoying for people that rewrite consciously published history. From this point of view, a better idea would be to show the remote branch name, as Matthieu suggested, so that the user could know which branch is involved.

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Message 7 of 25 in “Warnings before rebasing -i published history”
  1. Warnings before rebasing -i published historyLucien Kong, Jun 7, 2012
  2. Matthieu MoyJun 7, 2012
  3. konglu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  4. Matthieu MoyJun 8, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2012
  7. konglu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  8. Matthieu MoyJun 8, 2012
  9. Tomas CarneckyJun 8, 2012
  10. Matthieu MoyJun 8, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2012
  12. [PATCHv2] Warnings before rebasing -i published historyLucien Kong, Jun 11, 2012
  13. Matthieu MoyJun 11, 2012
  14. konglu@minatec.inpg.frJun 11, 2012
  15. Matthieu MoyJun 11, 2012
  16. branch --contains is unbearably slow [Re: [PATCHv2] Warnings before rebasing -i published history]Thomas Rast, Jun 11, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2012
  18. Thomas RastJun 11, 2012
  19. Thomas RastJun 11, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2012
  21. 1/2 Warnings before rebasing -i published historyLucien Kong, Jun 11, 2012
  22. 2/2 Warnings before amending published historyLucien Kong, Jun 11, 2012
  23. Matthieu MoyJun 12, 2012
  24. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2012
  25. Nguy ThomasJun 12, 2012

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