Re: Interactive rebase with pre-built script?

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Sep 13, 2012, 13:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1209131431580.20765@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <5050BA90.2010105@sohovfx.com>

Andrew Wong:

> Instead of rebasing to "HEAD~", you should be able to do:
>    git rebase -i HEAD

Would you look at that, that actually works. So much for not testing that. Thanks, that makes it a lot easier.

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> Instead of appending your own recipe, you could also abuse the EDITOR 
> environment variable.
> Say your recipe is stored in a file called "my_recipe". Then, you could do 
> this:
>    env EDITOR="cp my_recipe" git rebase -i HEAD
>
> But this could potentially be dangerous because if "rebase" fires up a editor 
> for any other reason (e.g. having a "reword" or "squash" in your recipe), 
> then the commit message will be messed up. So you need to make sure your 
> recipe won't trigger any editor except for the recipe.

Indeed, that's why I don't want to do that.

Perhaps I should add some switch that would append the contents of a specific file to the prebuild recipe, I guess that should be fairly easy. The question is what to call the switch.

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