From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] rebase: preserve interactive todo file on checkout failure
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:42:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZB226RPsBRghnruI@ugly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55ee99fc-69e6-7635-10fb-56de9d3b17b6@dunelm.org.uk>
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 02:15:47PM +0000, Phillip Wood wrote:
>On 23/03/2023 22:38, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> so you basically want to convert the magic `onto` into an explicit
>> todo command? i'm not sure what the advantage would be, and i
>> certainly can think of disadvantages re. usability and backwards
>> compat.
>
>If the initial checkout of "onto" fails I want the rebase to stop so the
>user can try and fix the problem (usually remove an untracked file) and
>then run "git rebase --continue" to continue the rebase including the
>initial checkout. Adding a "reset" command to the beginning of the todo
>list when the initial checkout fails is one way of achieving that.
>
i suppose, but patch 8/8 does pretty much the same, only with fewer side
effects.
>>> How does this patch ensure the checkout happens when the user
>>> continues the rebase?
>>>
>> the idea was never that the user --continue's. we're talking about a
>> fatal error,
>
>If it is a fatal error what is stopping the user from running "rebase
>--continue" and wreaking havoc? [...]
>
>It would be much more user friendly to simply allow them to fix the
>problem with the checkout and run "git rebase --continue"
>
i'll reorder the patch to the end of the series, as after the currently
last patch we'll be in a much better position to deal with the fallout
in a sane way.
thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-24 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-23 16:22 [PATCH 0/8] sequencer refactoring Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/8] rebase: simplify code related to imply_merge() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:40 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 21:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-08-09 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rebase refactoring Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-09 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rebase: simplify code related to imply_merge() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-09 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rebase: handle --strategy via imply_merge() as well Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-09 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] rebase: move parse_opt_keep_empty() down Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-15 14:01 ` Phillip Wood
2023-10-20 9:36 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] rebase refactoring Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-20 9:36 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] rebase: simplify code related to imply_merge() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-20 9:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] rebase: handle --strategy via imply_merge() as well Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-20 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-20 9:36 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] rebase: move parse_opt_keep_empty() down Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-20 22:07 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] rebase refactoring Junio C Hamano
2023-10-23 15:43 ` Phillip Wood
2023-10-23 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 2/8] rebase: move parse_opt_keep_empty() down Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:39 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 3/8] sequencer: pass around rebase action explicitly Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:27 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 21:27 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 4/8] sequencer: create enum for edit_todo_list() return value Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:27 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 5/8] rebase: preserve interactive todo file on checkout failure Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:31 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 22:38 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-24 14:15 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-24 14:42 ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2023-03-23 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 23:23 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-24 4:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 6/8] sequencer: simplify allocation of result array in todo_list_rearrange_squash() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:46 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 22:13 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 7/8] sequencer: pass `onto` to complete_action() as object-id Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:34 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 21:36 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-24 14:18 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 8/8] rebase: improve resumption from incorrect initial todo list Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-26 14:28 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-26 15:34 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-05-17 12:13 ` Phillip Wood
2023-08-24 16:46 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 19:38 ` [PATCH 0/8] sequencer refactoring Phillip Wood
2023-03-25 11:08 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-06 12:09 ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-17 13:10 ` Phillip Wood
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