From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:35:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 3/6] commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash Message-ID: <7vpquvb6wp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1287689637-95301-4-git-send-email-patnotz@gmail.com> "Pat Notz" writes: > diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c > index 5fa24f5..c82108c 100644 > --- a/builtin/commit.c > +++ b/builtin/commit.c > @@ -586,6 +588,15 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix, > strbuf_add(&sb, buffer + 2, strlen(buffer + 2)); > hook_arg1 = "commit"; > hook_arg2 = use_message; > + } else if (fixup_message) { > + struct pretty_print_context ctx = {0}; > + struct commit *commit; > + const char *out_enc; > + commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(fixup_message); > + out_enc = get_commit_output_encoding(); > + format_commit_message(commit, "fixup! %s\n\n", > + &sb, &ctx, out_enc); As your lookup_commit_reference_by_name() expects the caller to check for errors, you should do something similar to what you do in your "use_message" codepath in your [PATCH 1/6]. if (use_message) { const char *out_enc; struct commit *commit; commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(use_message); if (!commit) die("could not lookup commit %s", use_message); out_enc = get_commit_output_encoding(); use_message_buffer = logmsg_reencode(commit, out_enc);