Re: [RFC/PATCH] rebase -i: add run command to launch a shell command

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jul 28, 2010, 14:26 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq1van3cnl.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinvVFvu7WvwrRC0sg8vhoepFXKewmuTr7S94LWk@mail.gmail.com>

Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> writes:

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> $ git run HEAD^4.. command arguments
>
> (I'm not quite sure about the syntax). Something like "git bisect run"
> but for all the commits in the range.
>
>  I know you said "given points in history", maybe each approach is
> useful for each use case.

Yes, I think both approaches make sense.

The cool thing with my version is that you're already in an interactive rebase, which means:

* You can re-order commits, rebase them on upstream branch, and check
  the result in one pass.

* You're ready to ammend commits if they need fixing.

Also, you may not need to re-check everything for each commit. You may want a todo-list like this

pick deadbee log.c: do something run make pick c0ffeee Documentation for something run make doc

or whatever. Note also that this "git run" can easily be implemented on top of my patch:

GIT_EDITOR="sed -i 's/^[^#].*/\0\nrun make/'" git rebase -i

we can also imagine a "git rebase -i --run=cmd" that would prepare a todo-list with "run cmd" after each pick line.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/