[PATCH 0/4] rebase: update branches in multi-part topic

This is a feature I've wanted for quite a while. When working on the sparse index topic, I created a long RFC that actually broke into three topics for full review upstream. These topics were sequential, so any feedback on an earlier one required updates to the later ones. I would work on the full feature and use interactive rebase to update the full list of commits. However, I would need to update the branches pointing to those sub-topics.

This series adds a new --update-refs option to 'git rebase' (along with a rebase.updateRefs config option) that adds 'git update-ref' commands into the TODO list. This is powered by the commit decoration machinery.

As an example, here is my in-progress bundle URI RFC split into subtopics as they appear during the TODO list of a git rebase -i --update-refs:

pick 2d966282ff3 docs: document bundle URI standard pick 31396e9171a remote-curl: add 'get' capability pick 54c6ab70f67 bundle-uri: create basic file-copy logic pick 96cb2e35af1 bundle-uri: add support for http(s):// and file:// pick 6adaf842684 fetch: add --bundle-uri option pick 6c5840ed77e fetch: add 'refs/bundle/' to log.excludeDecoration exec git update-ref refs/heads/bundle-redo/fetch HEAD 6c5840ed77e1bc41c1fe6fb7c894ceede1b8d730

pick 1e3f6546632 clone: add --bundle-uri option pick 9e4a6fe9b68 clone: --bundle-uri cannot be combined with --depth exec git update-ref refs/heads/bundle-redo/clone HEAD 9e4a6fe9b68a8455b427c9ac8cdbff30c96653b4

pick 5451cb6599c bundle-uri: create bundle_list struct and helpers pick 3029c3aca15 bundle-uri: create base key-value pair parsing pick a8b2de79ce8 bundle-uri: create "key=value" line parsing pick 92625a47673 bundle-uri: unit test "key=value" parsing pick a8616af4dc2 bundle-uri: limit recursion depth for bundle lists pick 9d6809a8d53 bundle-uri: parse bundle list in config format pick 287a732b54c bundle-uri: fetch a list of bundles exec git update-ref refs/heads/bundle-redo/list HEAD 287a732b54c4d95e7f410b3b36ef90d8a19cd346

pick b09f8226185 protocol v2: add server-side "bundle-uri" skeleton pick 520204dcd1c bundle-uri client: add minimal NOOP client pick 62e8b457b48 bundle-uri client: add "git ls-remote-bundle-uri" pick 00eae925043 bundle-uri: serve URI advertisement from bundle.* config pick 4277440a250 bundle-uri client: add boolean transfer.bundleURI setting pick caf4599a81d bundle-uri: allow relative URLs in bundle lists pick df255000b7e bundle-uri: download bundles from an advertised list pick d71beabf199 clone: unbundle the advertised bundles pick c9578391976 t5601: basic bundle URI tests # Ref refs/heads/bundle-redo/rfc-3 checked out at '/home/stolee/_git/git-bundles'

exec git update-ref refs/heads/bundle-redo/advertise HEAD c9578391976ab9899c4e4f9b5fa2827650097305

The first two patches are helpers that are needed, but the full logic of the --update-refs option is introduced in patch 3. The config option is available in patch 4.

Thanks, -Stolee

Derrick Stolee (4):
  log-tree: create for_each_decoration()
  branch: add branch_checked_out() helper
  rebase: add --update-refs option
  rebase: add rebase.updateRefs config option

 Documentation/config/rebase.txt |   3 +
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt    |  11 ++++
 branch.c                        |  24 ++++---
 branch.h                        |   8 +++
 builtin/rebase.c                |  10 +++
 log-tree.c                      | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 log-tree.h                      |   4 ++
 sequencer.c                     |  99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 sequencer.h                     |   1 +
 t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh   |  34 ++++++++++
 10 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

base-commit: 2668e3608e47494f2f10ef2b6e69f08a84816bcb
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1247%2Fderrickstolee%2Frebase-keep-decorations-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1247/derrickstolee/rebase-keep-decorations-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1247