Re: [RFC] teach --edit to git rebase

From: Jean Privat <jean.privat@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2011, 22:36 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMQw0oO+eGxOX=347G0vZPe1uf-SyGGnT1Ku7cykgv4PQK1ZVQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> An other alternative is to use a simple git alias for myself (and do
> not bother the git community) but I do not know how to automatize the
> command 'git rebase --interactive' I suppose I need more complex
> infrastructure in the existing 'git rebase' (Maybe I did not look
> enough and there is a way to do it with a git alias).

Hum. I just found that I can do something like :

[alias]
        edit=!GIT_EDITOR='sed -i -e 1s/pick/edit/ --' git rebase -i
-no-autosquash $1^

The main thing that bothers me is that after the rebase, the head is detached (why?)

The other thing is that the error messages for invalid usages are far for perfect

$ git edit toto fatal: Needed a single revision invalid upstream toto^

$ git edit --root toto error: unknown option `root^' usage: git rebase [-i] [options] [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>] [<branch>] [...]

-Jean