Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper

2017-07-15 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Stefan, On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Stefan Beller wrote: > There are two conflicting messages I get: > * only a few fields seem to be polluted (verbose_header, > max_parents), much fewer than I thought > * we do use these undocumented ways already, > but not at the scale that DScho is trying to

Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper

2017-07-14 Thread Stefan Beller
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > The first step of an interactive rebase is to generate the so-called "todo > script", to be stored in the state directory as "git-rebase-todo" and to > be edited by the user. > > Originally, we adjusted the

[PATCH v6 02/10] rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper

2017-07-14 Thread Johannes Schindelin
The first step of an interactive rebase is to generate the so-called "todo script", to be stored in the state directory as "git-rebase-todo" and to be edited by the user. Originally, we adjusted the output of `git log ` using a simple sed script. Over the course of the years, the code became more