Re: qgit idea: interface for cherry-picking

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 4, 2006, 18:38 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550607041138g60a82819lb5e59ea239b55ef5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e8dqfo$3ff$1@sea.gmane.org>

On 7/4/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Marco Costalba wrote:
>
> >
> > Is this something that can fulfill you request? do you need something
> > different?  perhaps something as a "default to current selected SHA as
> > input argument" flag.
>
> It would be nice (I don't know if feasible) that either to provide some kind
> of parameters substitution in the likes of "%head" in the invocation line
> for a script to be expanded to the sha1 or name of head of currently
> selected commit.
>

Well, I think that the indiscussed champion in this field is git-rev-parse

Please note that an action have not to be _one_ git command, but you can assign a command sequence to an action, if the first command is git-rev-parse probably you have what you need.

I have to better explain some implemantation details. In case a multi line text is set as an action content, qgit wraps up the content in a temporary script and run the script as a whole. So you can use anything inside your action definition.

NOTE: this is possible because the input parameters are _always_
appended to the first line command only.

As example if the action 'test' is defined as:

echo echo 2 echo 3

When you run 'test' and insert '1' when prompted for input parameters the output will be: 1 2 3

Hope this helps.

    Marco