Re: [GSoC][PATCH v3 2/3] rebase -i: rewrite setup_reflog_action() in C

> Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi Junio,
>>
>> Le 22/06/2018 à 18:27, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
>>> Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> This rewrites (the misnamed) setup_reflog_action() from shell to C. The
>>>> new version is called checkout_base_commit().
>>>
>>> ;-) on the "misnamed" part.  Indeed, setting up the comment for the
>>> reflog entry is secondary to what this function wants to do, which
>>> is to check out the branch to be rebased.
>>>
>>> I do not think "base_commit" is a good name, either, though.  When I
>>> hear 'base' in the context of 'rebase', I would imagine that the
>>> speaker is talking about the bottom of the range of the commits to
>>> be rebased (i.e. "rebase --onto ONTO BASE BRANCH", which replays
>>> commits BASE..BRANCH on top of ONTO and then points BRANCH at the
>>> result), not the top of the range or the branch these commits are
>>> taken from.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps should I name this function checkout_onto(), and rename 
>> checkout_onto() to "detach_onto()"?  And I would reorder those two commits in 
>> the series, as this would be very confusing.
> 
> I may be misunderstanding what is happening in the function, but I
> think it is checking out neither the onto or the base commit.  The
> function instead is about checking out the branch to be rebased
> before anything else happens when the optional <branch> argument is
> given (and when the optional argument is not given, then we rebase
> the current branch so there is no need to check it out upfront), no?
> 
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