Re: [PATCH] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits

> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> This patch makes good sense to me. I left a few notes below, but they
> are relatively minor, and this seems to be all in a good direction.
> 
> As a (somewhat) interesting aside, this feature would be useful to me
> outside of partial clones, since I often have this workflow in my local
> development wherein 'git rebase' spends quite a bit of time comparing
> patches on my branch to everything new upstream.

> This sentence is a little confusing if you skip over the graph, since it
> reads: "When rebasing against an because ... because ...". It may be
> clearer if you swap the order of the last two clauses to instead be:
> 
>   it must read the contents of every novel upstream commit, in addition to
>   the tip of the upstream and the merge base, because "git rebase"
>   attempts to exclude commits that are duplicates of upstream ones.

> > +--skip-already-present::
> > +--no-skip-already-present::
> > +	Skip commits that are already present in the new upstream.
> > +	This is the default.
> 
> I believe that you mean '--skip-already-present' is the default, here,
> but the placement makes it ambiguous, since it is in a paragraph with a
> header that contains both the positive and negated version of this flag.
> 
> Maybe this could changed to: s/This/--skip-already-present/'.

> >  In that case, the fix is easy because 'git rebase' knows to skip
> > -changes that are already present in the new upstream.  So if you say
> > +changes that are already present in the new upstream (unless
> > +`--no-skip-already-present` is given). So if you say
> 
> Extremely minor nit: there is a whitespace change on this line where the
> original has two spaces between the '.' and 'So', and the new version
> has only one.

> > diff --git a/sequencer.h b/sequencer.h
> > index 393571e89a..39bb12f624 100644
> > --- a/sequencer.h
> > +++ b/sequencer.h
> > @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ int sequencer_remove_state(struct replay_opts *opts);
> >   * `--onto`, we do not want to re-generate the root commits.
> >   */
> >  #define TODO_LIST_ROOT_WITH_ONTO (1U << 6)
> > -
> > +#define TODO_LIST_SKIP_ALREADY_PRESENT (1U << 7)
> 
> This was another spot that I thought could maybe be turned into an enum,
> but it's clearly not the fault of your patch, and could easily be turned
> into #leftoverbits.