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patch, 2 partsrebase -i: respect commit.cleanup when picking fixups

Subject: [PATCH 0/2] rebase -i: respect commit.cleanup when picking fixups

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4 messages between Sep 18, 2025 and Sep 18, 2025. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Phillip Wood· Sep 18, 2025, 09:00 UTC · lore
From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>

This series fixes a recent bug report[2] where "git rebase --autosquash" left comments in the commit message when squashing fixup commits. The first patch fixes the bug and the second removes some code that becomes unused after the changes in the first patch. Thanks to Simon for reporting this.

[1] <CA+itcS3DxbgpFy2aPRvHQvTAYE=dU0kfeDdidVwWLU=rBAWR4w@mail.gmail.com>
Base-Commit: 92c87bdc406e5bcf1b516a861d609b03d99c23b7
Published-As: https://github.com/phillipwood/git/releases/tag/pw%2Frebase-commit-msg-cleanup%2Fv1
View-Changes-At: https://github.com/phillipwood/git/compare/92c87bdc4...9c7f4e39c
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/phillipwood/git pw/rebase-commit-msg-cleanup/v1
Phillip Wood (2):
  rebase -i: respect commit.cleanup when picking fixups
  sequencer: remove VERBATIM_MSG flag
 sequencer.c                  | 12 ------------
 t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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Phillip Wood· Sep 18, 2025, 09:00 UTC · re: Phillip Wood · lore

[PATCH 1/2] rebase -i: respect commit.cleanup when picking fixups

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>

If the user uses a prepare-commit-msg hook to add comments to the commit message template and sets commit.cleanup to remove them when the commit is created then the comments will not be removed when rebase commits the final command in a chain of "fixup" commands[1]. This happens because f7d42ceec52 (rebase -i: do leave commit message intact in fixup! chains, 2021-01-28) started passing the VERBATIM_MSG flag when committing the final command in a chain of "fixup" commands. That change was added in response to a bug report[2] where the commit message was being cleaned up when it should not be. The cause of that bug was that before f7d42ceec52 the sequencer passed CLEANUP_MSG when committing the final fixup. That commit should have simply removed the CLEANUP_MSG flag, not changed it to VERBATIM_MSG. Using VERBATIM_MSG ignores the user's commit.cleanup config when committing the final fixup which means it behaves differently to an ordinary "pick" command which respects commit.cleanup.

Fix this by not setting an explicit cleanup flag when committing the final fixup which matches the way "pick" commands behave. The test added in f7d42ceec52 is replaced with one that checks that "fixup" and "pick" commands do not clean up the message when commit.cleanup is not set and do clean up the message when it is set.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CA+itcS3DxbgpFy2aPRvHQvTAYE=dU0kfeDdidVwWLU=rBAWR4w@mail.gmail.com [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CANVGpwZGbzYLMeMze64e_OU9p3bjyEgzC5thmNBr6LttBt+YGw@mail.gmail.com

Reported-by: Simon Cheng <cyqsimon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
---
 sequencer.c                  |  1 -
 t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Show changes to 2 files +22 −7

sequencer.c, t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh

diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 9ae40a91b24..47c57c2ea3c 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -2436,7 +2436,6 @@ static int do_pick_commit(struct repository *r,
 		if (!final_fixup)
 			msg_file = rebase_path_squash_msg();
 		else if (file_exists(rebase_path_fixup_msg())) {
-			flags |= VERBATIM_MSG;
 			msg_file = rebase_path_fixup_msg();
 		} else {
 			const char *dest = git_path_squash_msg(r);
diff --git a/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh b/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
index 5d093e3a7ab..5033411a431 100755
--- a/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
+++ b/t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
@@ -486,12 +486,28 @@ test_expect_success 'fixup a fixup' '
 	test XZWY = $(git show | tr -cd W-Z)
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'fixup does not clean up commit message' '
-	oneline="#818" &&
-	git commit --allow-empty -m "$oneline" &&
-	git commit --fixup HEAD --allow-empty &&
-	git -c commit.cleanup=strip rebase -ki --autosquash HEAD~2 &&
-	test "$oneline" = "$(git show -s --format=%s)"
+test_expect_success 'pick and fixup respect commit.cleanup' '
+	git reset --hard base &&
+	test_commit --no-tag "fixup! second commit" file1 fixup &&
+	test_commit something &&
+	write_script .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg <<-\EOF &&
+	printf "\n# Prepared\n" >> "$1"
+	EOF
+	git rebase -i --autosquash HEAD~3 &&
+	test_commit_message HEAD~1 <<-\EOF &&
+	second commit
+
+	# Prepared
+	EOF
+	test_commit_message HEAD <<-\EOF &&
+	something
+
+	# Prepared
+	EOF
+	git reset --hard something &&
+	git -c commit.cleanup=strip rebase -i --autosquash HEAD~3 &&
+	test_commit_message HEAD~1 -m "second commit" &&
+	test_commit_message HEAD -m "something"
 '
 
 test_done
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Junio C Hamano· Sep 18, 2025, 15:29 UTC · re: Phillip Wood · lore

Re: [PATCH 1/2] rebase -i: respect commit.cleanup when picking fixups

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
Show 7 quoted lines
> ... The cause of that
> bug was that before f7d42ceec52 the sequencer passed CLEANUP_MSG
> when committing the final fixup. That commit should have simply
> removed the CLEANUP_MSG flag, not changed it to VERBATIM_MSG. Using
> VERBATIM_MSG ignores the user's commit.cleanup config when committing
> the final fixup which means it behaves differently to an ordinary
> "pick" command which respects commit.cleanup.
So cleanly analysed and clearly described. 
Show 12 quoted lines
> diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
> index 9ae40a91b24..47c57c2ea3c 100644
> --- a/sequencer.c
> +++ b/sequencer.c
> @@ -2436,7 +2436,6 @@ static int do_pick_commit(struct repository *r,
>  		if (!final_fixup)
>  			msg_file = rebase_path_squash_msg();
>  		else if (file_exists(rebase_path_fixup_msg())) {
> -			flags |= VERBATIM_MSG;
>  			msg_file = rebase_path_fixup_msg();
>  		} else {
>  			const char *dest = git_path_squash_msg(r);

And this is the location the earlier commit replaced the code that sets CLEANUP_MSG, which matches the fix described in the proposed log message. Makes sense.

The commit at the source of the bug is what introduced VERBATIM_MSG, and I think it can be removed (this was the only place it was set).

And you removed it in a separate step ;-).  Well done.
Thanks.
Phillip Wood· Sep 18, 2025, 09:00 UTC · re: Phillip Wood · lore

[PATCH 2/2] sequencer: remove VERBATIM_MSG flag

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>

As the last commit deleted the only user of VERBATIM_MSG remove it. This reverts remaining parts of commit f7d42ceec52 (rebase -i: do leave commit message intact in fixup! chains, 2021-01-28) that were not deleted by the last commit.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
---
 sequencer.c | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
Show changes to sequencer.c +0 −11
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 47c57c2ea3c..6d29a938aa5 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -1087,7 +1087,6 @@ N_("you have staged changes in your working tree\n"
 #define CLEANUP_MSG (1<<3)
 #define VERIFY_MSG  (1<<4)
 #define CREATE_ROOT_COMMIT (1<<5)
-#define VERBATIM_MSG (1<<6)
 
 static int run_command_silent_on_success(struct child_process *cmd)
 {
@@ -1125,9 +1124,6 @@ static int run_git_commit(const char *defmsg,
 {
 	struct child_process cmd = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
 
-	if ((flags & CLEANUP_MSG) && (flags & VERBATIM_MSG))
-		BUG("CLEANUP_MSG and VERBATIM_MSG are mutually exclusive");
-
 	cmd.git_cmd = 1;
 
 	if (is_rebase_i(opts) &&
@@ -1166,8 +1162,6 @@ static int run_git_commit(const char *defmsg,
 		strvec_pushl(&cmd.args, "-C", "HEAD", NULL);
 	if ((flags & CLEANUP_MSG))
 		strvec_push(&cmd.args, "--cleanup=strip");
-	if ((flags & VERBATIM_MSG))
-		strvec_push(&cmd.args, "--cleanup=verbatim");
 	if ((flags & EDIT_MSG))
 		strvec_push(&cmd.args, "-e");
 	else if (!(flags & CLEANUP_MSG) &&
@@ -1540,9 +1534,6 @@ static int try_to_commit(struct repository *r,
 	enum commit_msg_cleanup_mode cleanup;
 	int res = 0;
 
-	if ((flags & CLEANUP_MSG) && (flags & VERBATIM_MSG))
-		BUG("CLEANUP_MSG and VERBATIM_MSG are mutually exclusive");
-
 	if (parse_head(r, &current_head))
 		return -1;
 
@@ -1618,8 +1609,6 @@ static int try_to_commit(struct repository *r,
 
 	if (flags & CLEANUP_MSG)
 		cleanup = COMMIT_MSG_CLEANUP_ALL;
-	else if (flags & VERBATIM_MSG)
-		cleanup = COMMIT_MSG_CLEANUP_NONE;
 	else if ((opts->signoff || opts->record_origin) &&
 		 !opts->explicit_cleanup)
 		cleanup = COMMIT_MSG_CLEANUP_SPACE;
-- 
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