From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:54:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 01/10] Teach rebase interactive the mark command
Message-ID: <7v63ulapu6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080414062425.GB20979@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>> Except of this, I prefer to use the colon to be much closer to the syntax
>> of fast-import.
>
> Me too, but it looks like in a human edited "TODO" script we may want
> to be more friendly and allow named marks.  Though I'm not sure that is
> really all that useful.  If you are merging something because it used to
> be merged before the rebase I doubt we'd generate a meaningful mark name
> when the TODO script is initially formatted.

I'd say a small integer is the only thing we would need.  The TODO insn
sequence would be machine generated then manually tweaked, not the other
way around.

Regarding colon vs pound, I would say that the 'mark' insn can just say
"2" to set the second mark, and then store it in refs/marks/2; the
commands that refer to the commit later can use the usual "refs/marks/2"
or "marks/2" syntax without colon nor pound nor any other special syntax
that way.