Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-03-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > I'd say keep it at this point. I think there _are_ some good ideas here, > and part of a project is figuring out what is good. And part of the role > of the mentor is applying some taste. Amen to that. I hope we have enough mentor-candidates with good taste, though ;-) > Th

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-03-10 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:03:52PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > > I'm not sure whether it is a good idea or not. But I think it is looking > > decreasingly like a good GSoC project. > > I guess I misread the sentiment of the mailing list, because I merged > this idea into the list about two h

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-28 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 02/28/2014 01:52 PM, Jeff King wrote: > [...] > Sorry, I missed an important word in my final sentence. It should have > been "the examples you gave are NOT particularly interesting to me". > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 01:10:30PM -0500, Brandon McCaig wrote: >> Particularly all of the ideas expr

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-28 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 01:10:30PM -0500, Brandon McCaig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > This seems like a reasonable feature to me. All of your examples are > > possible with an "e"dit and another git command, but the convenience may > > be worth it (though persona

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-27 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Jeff King wrote: > This seems like a reasonable feature to me. All of your examples are > possible with an "e"dit and another git command, but the convenience may > be worth it (though personally, most of the examples you gave are > particularly interesting to me[1

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 02/26/2014 11:52 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:04:30AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > >> It would be nice to support more flexibility in the todo-list commands >> by allowing the commands to take options. Maybe >> >> * Convert a commit into a merge commit: >> >> pic

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:04:30AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > >> It would be nice to support more flexibility in the todo-list commands >> by allowing the commands to take options. Maybe >> >> * Convert a commit into a merge commit: >> >> pick -p c0ffeee -p e1ee

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-26 Thread Tay Ray Chuan
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Jeff King wrote: > I'd worry a little that it is not a summer's worth of work, but I > suspect there are other parts of rebase--interactive that could use > attention once the student is familiar with the code. It might be worthwhile to check for prior projects th

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-26 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:14:11PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > > [1] The one feature I would like in this vein is that editing the title > > in the instruction-sheet would modify the commit message of the > > relevant commit. For some reason I try to do this every few weeks, > > b

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 02/26/2014 11:52 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:04:30AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > >> It would be nice to support more flexibility in the todo-list commands >> by allowing the commands to take options. Maybe >> >> * Convert a commit into a merge commit: >> >> pic

Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-26 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:04:30AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > It would be nice to support more flexibility in the todo-list commands > by allowing the commands to take options. Maybe > > * Convert a commit into a merge commit: > > pick -p c0ffeee -p e1ee712 deadbab The oneline of th

GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haggerty
I just submitted the idea below as a pull request [1] to the GSoC ideas page, but I'd like to get some mailing list feedback first that the idea is sensible... And, is there anybody else willing to volunteer as a mentor for this project? (There should be at least two.) Michael [1] https://githu