Re: sequencer status

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2017, 16:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD035niTUQTe73RSTE+3u6WX11UpxoqCSrfVP1Qs-fF0gg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8e25c42f-80f2-e0d4-38e4-b4fe9c8074e0@morey-chaisemartin.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I've created a small tool to display the current sequencer status.
> It mimics what Magit does to display what was done and what is left to do.
>
> As someone who often rebase large series of patches (also works with am, revert, cherry-pick), I really needed the feature and use this daily.

Yeah, many people use the interactive rebase a lot so I think it could be very interesting.

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> It's available here:
> https://github.com/nmorey/git-sequencer-status
> SUSE and Fedora packages are available here:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:NMoreyChaisemartin:git-tools/git-sequencer-status
>
> It's not necessary very robust yet. Most of the time I use simple rebase so there are a lot of untested corner cases.
>
> Here is an example output:
> $ sequencer-status
> # Interactive rebase: master onto rebase_conflict
> exec    true
> pick    e54d993 Fourth commit
> exec    true
> *pick   b064629 Third commit
> exec    true
> pick    174c933 Second commit
> onto    773cb23 Alternate second

It is displaying the steps that have already been performed, right? I wonder if people might want more about the current step (but maybe that belongs to `git status`) or perhaps the not yet performed states (and maybe even a way to edit the todo list?)

> Two questions:
> - Could this be a candidate for contrib/ ?

It seems to me that these days we don't often add new tools to contrib/.

> - Would it be interesting to add the relevant code to sequencer.c so that all sequencer based commands could have a --status option ?

Yeah, it's probably better if it's integrated in git, either as a --status option in some commands, or perhaps as an option of `git status`.

Thanks, Christian.