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Re: [PATCH 2/3] checkout: respect GIT_REFLOG_ACTION

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 10, 2013, 18:31 UTC
Message-ID
<7vd2rtizrf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<1370881332-9231-3-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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> GIT_REFLOG_ACTION is an environment variable specifying the reflog
> message to write after an action is completed.  Other commands including
> merge, reset, and commit respect it.
>
> This incidentally fixes a bug in t/checkout-last.  You can now expect
>
>   $ git checkout -
>
> to work fine after an interactive rebase.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/checkout.c       | 11 ++++++++---
>  t/t2012-checkout-last.sh |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
> index f5b50e5..1e2af85 100644
> --- a/builtin/checkout.c
> +++ b/builtin/checkout.c
> @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ static void update_refs_for_switch(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
>  				   struct branch_info *new)
>  {
>  	struct strbuf msg = STRBUF_INIT;
> -	const char *old_desc;
> +	const char *old_desc, *reflog_msg;
>  	if (opts->new_branch) {
>  		if (opts->new_orphan_branch) {
>  			if (opts->new_branch_log && !log_all_ref_updates) {
> @@ -620,8 +620,13 @@ static void update_refs_for_switch(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
>  	old_desc = old->name;
>  	if (!old_desc && old->commit)
>  		old_desc = sha1_to_hex(old->commit->object.sha1);
> -	strbuf_addf(&msg, "checkout: moving from %s to %s",
> -		    old_desc ? old_desc : "(invalid)", new->name);
> +
> +	reflog_msg = getenv("GIT_REFLOG_ACTION");
> +	if (!reflog_msg)
> +		strbuf_addf(&msg, "checkout: moving from %s to %s",
> +			old_desc ? old_desc : "(invalid)", new->name);
> +	else
> +		strbuf_insert(&msg, 0, reflog_msg, strlen(reflog_msg));

Looks very sensible; we may need to audit programs that set and export REFLOG_ACTION to make sure they do not do so incorrectly, which wouldn't have mattered if they called "checkout" but now it would with this fix, though.

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>  	if (!strcmp(new->name, "HEAD") && !new->path && !opts->force_detach) {
>  		/* Nothing to do. */
> diff --git a/t/t2012-checkout-last.sh b/t/t2012-checkout-last.sh
> index 5729487..ab80da7 100755
> --- a/t/t2012-checkout-last.sh
> +++ b/t/t2012-checkout-last.sh
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ test_expect_success 'master...' '
>  	test "z$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)" = "z$(git rev-parse --verify master^)"
>  '
>  
> -test_expect_failure '"checkout -" works after an interactive rebase' '
> +test_expect_success '"checkout -" works after an interactive rebase' '
>  	git checkout master &&
>  	git checkout other &&
>  	git rebase -i master &&
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Message 6 of 12 in “Fix git checkout - (early preview)”
  1. 0/3 Fix git checkout - (early preview)Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 10, 2013
  2. 1/3 t/checkout-last: checkout - doesn't work after rebase -iRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 10, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 13, 2013
  5. 2/3 checkout: respect GIT_REFLOG_ACTIONRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 10, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2013
  7. 3/3 rebase -i: write better reflog messages for startRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 10, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2013
  9. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 10, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 13, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 13, 2013

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