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Re: [PATCH v3] sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messages

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 31, 2021, 14:38 UTC
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Hi Elijah,
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>
> save_opts() should save any non-default values.  It was intended to do
> this, but since most options in struct replay_opts default to 0, it only
> saved non-zero values.  Unfortunately, this does not always work for
> options.edit.  Roughly speaking, options.edit had a default value of 0
> for cherry-pick but a default value of 1 for revert.  Make save_opts()
> record a value whenever it differs from the default.
>
> options.edit was also overly simplistic; we had more than two cases.
> The behavior that previously existed was as follows:
>
>                        Non-conflict commits    Right after Conflict
>     revert             Edit iff isatty(0)      Edit (ignore isatty(0))
>     cherry-pick        No edit                 See above
>     Specify --edit     Edit (ignore isatty(0)) See above
>     Specify --no-edit  (*)                     See above
>
>     (*) Before stopping for conflicts, No edit is the behavior.  After
>         stopping for conflicts, the --no-edit flag is not saved so see
>         the first two rows.
>
> However, the expected behavior is:
>
>                        Non-conflict commits    Right after Conflict
>     revert             Edit iff isatty(0)      Edit iff isatty(0)
>     cherry-pick        No edit                 Edit iff isatty(0)
>     Specify --edit     Edit (ignore isatty(0)) Edit (ignore isatty(0))
>     Specify --no-edit  No edit                 No edit
>
> In order to get the expected behavior, we need to change options.edit
> to a tri-state: unspecified, false, or true.  When specified, we follow
> what it says.  When unspecified, we need to check whether the current
> commit being created is resolving a conflict as well as consulting
> options.action and isatty(0).  While at it, add a should_edit() utility
> function that compresses options.edit down to a boolean based on the
> additional information for the non-conflict case.
>
> continue_single_pick() is the function responsible for resuming after
> conflict cases, regardless of whether there is one commit being picked
> or many.  Make this function stop assuming edit behavior in all cases,
> so that it can correctly handle !isatty(0) and specific requests to not
> edit the commit message.
>
> Reported-by: Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> ---
>     sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messages
>
>     Changes since v2:
>
>      * Changed to use <0 for unspecified (instead of == -1), >0 for true
>        (instead of == 1).
>      * Removed assert() statement.
>      * Removed unnecessary "want_edit" local variable
>
>     Reported-by: Renato Botelho garga@freebsd.org Signed-off-by: Elijah
>     Newren newren@gmail.com
Looks good, thank you!
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Thanks, Dscho

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  1. sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messagesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 26, 2021
  2. Philip OakleyMar 26, 2021
  3. Elijah NewrenMar 26, 2021
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2021
  5. Phillip WoodMar 29, 2021
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 29, 2021
  7. Elijah NewrenMar 29, 2021
  8. sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messagesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 30, 2021
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 30, 2021
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 30, 2021
  11. Elijah NewrenMar 30, 2021
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 31, 2021
  13. Elijah NewrenMar 31, 2021
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2021
  15. Elijah NewrenApr 1, 2021
  16. Elijah NewrenMar 30, 2021
  17. unifying sequencer's options persisting, was Re: [PATCH v2] sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messagesJohannes Schindelin, Mar 31, 2021
  18. Phillip WoodApr 2, 2021
  19. Phillip WoodApr 2, 2021
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2021
  21. Elijah NewrenApr 2, 2021
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2021
  23. Johannes SchindelinApr 8, 2021
  24. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2021
  25. Christian CouderApr 8, 2021
  26. Johannes SchindelinApr 9, 2021
  27. sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messagesElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Mar 31, 2021
  28. Johannes SchindelinMar 31, 2021

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