Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: Fix possibly wrong onto hash in todo

> Hi Phillip and Taylor.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:32:37PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
>>> I'm not sure it's worth rearranging these lines. It probably does not matter
>>> but we could do
>>>
>>> +	char shortonto[GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1];
>>>
>>> and then later call find_unique_abbrev_r() instead so we don't have to worry
>>> about freeing shortonto.
> 
> I like this. I'll change the code, if the rest of the patch is okay.

> 
>>> Thanks for taking the trouble to add a test, I think all the lines above
>>> could be simplified to
>>>
>>> 	GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=cat git rebase -i HEAD~5 branch1 >actual
> 
> Nice! :) There was a test called 'todo count' which I mimicked. This
> obviously is much cleaner solution, thanks.
> 
>>> we could lose the final .*
> 
> Ack.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:36:21AM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
>> Ack, I noticed this too during my review, but apparently forgot to
>> comment on it. I'm puzzled by the first '..*'. If you're searching for
>> any non-empty string, how about '.+' instead?
> 
> That's true. Good point. I pretty much copy&pasted the 'todo count' test
> so I didn't give this much thought. I'll fix this.
>