Re: rebase autosquash doesn't recognise a chain of fixups

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2011, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8vvommwf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimqvu7c559_AQ6yLxPACOxD0ciNxQ@mail.gmail.com>

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

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> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:
>>
>> > This seems unnecessary. `git commit --fixup HEAD` doesn't really make any
>> sense at all to run when you can say `git commit --amend` instead,
>>
>> What about this sequence?
>>
>>        git commit -m 'foo'
>>        git commit -m 'bar'
>>        git commit --fixup HEAD~1
>>        git commit -m 'baz'
>>        git commit --fixup HEAD~1
>>
>>
> You raise a good point. I personally think someone who types that deserves
> what he gets, but I have no objection to being intelligent about duplicate
> fixup! prefixes.

Of course an alternative solution is to fix this on the "rebase -i" side, by building on top of your d3d7a42 (rebase: better rearranging of fixup!/squash! lines with --autosquash, 2010-11-04).

Or perhaps we would want to do both.