Re: [RFC/PATCH] rebase--interactive: Add "sign" command

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 3, 2016, 16:15 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608031813410.107993@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3a5al7z.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > ... my Git garden shears [*1*] (essentially, what
> > git rebase --interactive --preserve-merges *should* have been).
> 
> Any plan to fold it into "git rebase -i" as a new (improved) mode of
> operation, by the way?

It was my plan to integrate it into the sequencer, once the rebase--helper landed in `master`. Little did I know how long it would take to get this done...

My loose idea was to deprecate --preserve-merges after introducing a --recreate-branches, or some such. But enough of that. The rebase--helper needs to get here first.

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> > However, I could imagine that we actually want this to be more extensible.
> > After all, all you are doing is to introduce a new rebase -i command that
> > does nothing else than shelling out to a command.
> 
> Yup, I tend to agree.

Awesome!

Ciao, Dscho