From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:33:02 GMT Subject: [PATCH v8 06/16] sequencer: introduce the `merge` command Message-ID: <7360a072f6fdd276d30839613434329b645e2cce.1524306546.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: This patch is part of the effort to reimplement `--preserve-merges` with a substantially improved design, a design that has been developed in the Git for Windows project to maintain the dozens of Windows-specific patch series on top of upstream Git. The previous patch implemented the `label` and `reset` commands to label commits and to reset to labeled commits. This patch adds the `merge` command, with the following syntax: merge [-C ] # The parameter in this instance is the *original* merge commit, whose author and message will be used for the merge commit that is about to be created. The parameter refers to the (possibly rewritten) revision to merge. Let's see an example of a todo list: label onto # Branch abc reset onto pick deadbeef Hello, world! label abc reset onto pick cafecafe And now for something completely different merge -C baaabaaa abc # Merge the branch 'abc' into master To edit the merge commit's message (a "reword" for merges, if you will), use `-c` (lower-case) instead of `-C`; this convention was borrowed from `git commit` that also supports `-c` and `-C` with similar meanings. To create *new* merges, i.e. without copying the commit message from an existing commit, simply omit the `-C ` parameter (which will open an editor for the merge message): merge abc This comes in handy when splitting a branch into two or more branches. Note: this patch only adds support for recursive merges, to keep things simple. Support for octopus merges will be added later in a separate patch series, support for merges using strategies other than the recursive merge is left for the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- git-rebase--interactive.sh | 6 + sequencer.c | 407 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 406 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index e1b865f43f2..ccd5254d1c9 100644 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit f, fixup = like \"squash\", but discard this commit's log message x, exec = run command (the rest of the line) using shell d, drop = remove commit +l, label