The hints in the current "instruction sheet" template look like so:
# Rebase 3f14246..a1d7e01 onto 3f14246
#
# Commands:
# p, pick = use commit
# r, reword = use commit, but edit the commit message
# e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
# s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit
# f, fixup = like "squash", but discard this commit's log message
# x <cmd>, exec <cmd> = Run a shell command <cmd>, and stop if it fails
#
# If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST.
# However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted.
#
This does not make it clear that the format of each line is
<insn> <commit id> <explanatory text that will be printed>
but the reader will probably infer that from the automatically
generated pick examples above it.
What about the "exec" instruction? By analogy, I might imagine that
the format of that line is "exec <command> <explanatory text>", and
the "x <cmd>" hint does not address that question (at first I read it
as taking an argument <cmd> that is the name of a shell). Meanwhile,
the mention of <cmd> makes the hints harder to scan as a table.
So remove the <cmd> and add some words to remind the reader that
"exec" runs a command named by the rest of the line. To make room, it
is left to the manpage to explain that that command is run using
$SHELL and that nonzero status from that command will pause the
rebase.
Wording from Junio.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the case of a ref/pathname conflict, checkout will
already do the right thing and checkout the ref. However,
for a non-existant ref, this has two advantages:
1. If a file with that pathname exists, rebase will
refresh the file from the index and then rebase the
current branch instead of producing an error.
2. If no such file exists, the error message using an
explicit "--" is better:
# before
$ git rebase -i origin bogus
error: pathspec 'bogus' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Could not checkout bogus
# after
$ git rebase -i origin bogus
fatal: invalid reference: bogus
Could not checkout bogus
The problems seem to be trigger-able only through "git
rebase -i", as regular git-rebase checks the validity of the
branch parameter as a ref very early on. However, it doesn't
hurt to be defensive.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Interactive rebase allows the '--verify' option to be passed, but it will
be ignored. Implement proper support for the option for both interactive
and non-interactive rebase by making it override any previous
'--no-verify'.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Support lines of the form "fixup! 7a235b" that specify an exact commit
in addition to the normal "squash! Old commit message" form.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current behvaior of --autosquash can duplicate fixup!/squash! lines
if they match multiple commits, and it can also apply them to commits
that come after them in the todo list. Even more oddly, a commit that
looks like "fixup! fixup!" will match itself and be duplicated in the
todo list.
Change the todo list rearranging to mark all commits as used as soon
as they are emitted, and to avoid emitting a fixup/squash commit if the
commit has already been marked as used.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although Git interally has the facility to differentiate between
porcelain and plubmbing commands and appropriately print errors,
several shell scripts invoke plubming commands triggering cryptic
plumbing errors to be displayed on a porcelain interface. This patch
replaces the "needs update" message in git-pull and git-rebase, when
`git update-index` is run, with a more friendly message.
Reported-by: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Reported-by: Thore Husfeldt <thore.husfeldt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some versions of cut do not cope well with lines that do not end in
an LF. In this case, we can completely avoid cut by using the
${var%% *} parameter expansion (suggested by Brandon Casey).
I found this problem when t3404's "avoid unnecessary reset" failed
due to the "rebase -i" not avoiding updating the tested timestamp.
On a Mac OS X 10.4.11 system:
% printf '%s' 'foo bar' | /usr/bin/cut -d ' ' -f 1
cut: stdin: Illegal byte sequence
Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cherry-pick fails after picking a large series of commits, it can
be hard to pick out the error message and advice. Prefix the advice
with “hint: ” to help.
Before:
error: could not apply 7ab78c9... foo
After resolving the conflicts,
mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
and commit the result with:
git commit -c 7ab78c9a7898b87127365478431289cb98f8d98f
After:
error: could not apply 7ab78c9... foo
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
hint: and commit the result with 'git commit -c 7ab78c9'
Noticed-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Encouraged-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the echo statements that operate on $rest with printf's to restore
what was lost from 938791cd. This avoids any mangling that XSI-conformant
echo's may introduce.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit cd035b1c introduced the exec command to interactive rebase. In
doing so, it modified the way that skip_unnecessary_picks iterates through
the list of rebase commands so that it avoided collapsing multiple spaces
into a single space. This is necessary for example if the argument to the
exec command contains a path with multiple spaces in it.
The way it did this was by reading each line of rebase commands into a
single variable, and then breaking the individual components out using
echo, sed, and cut. It used the individual broken-out components for
decision making, and was still able to write the original line to the
output file from the variable it had saved it in. But, since we only
really need to look at anything other than the first element of the line
when a 'pick' command is encountered, and even that is only necessary when
we are still searching for "unnecessary" picks, and since newer rebase
commands like 'exec' may not even require a sha1 field, let's make our read
statement parse its input into a "command" variable, and a "rest" variable,
and then only break out the sha1 from $rest, and call git-rev-parse, when
absolutely necessary.
I think this future proofs this subroutine, avoids calling git-rev-parse
unnecessarily, and possibly with bogus arguments, and still accomplishes
the goal of not mangling the $rest of the rebase command.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The typical usage pattern would be to run a test (or simply a compilation
command) at given points in history.
The shell command is ran (from the worktree root), and the rebase is
stopped when the command fails, to give the user an opportunity to fix
the problem before continuing with "git rebase --continue".
This needs a little rework of skip_unnecessary_picks, which wasn't robust
enough to deal with lines like
exec >"file name with many spaces"
in the todolist. The new version extracts command, sha1 and rest from
each line, but outputs the line itself verbatim to avoid changing the
whitespace layout.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On systems with an echo which defaults to the XSI-conformant behavior
(Solaris, or others using Ksh), echo will interpret certain backslashed
characters as control sequences. This can cause a problem for interactive
rebase when it is used to rebase commits whose commit "subject" (the first
line) contains any of these backslashed sequences. In this case, echo will
substitute the control sequence for the backslashed characters and either
the rebased commit message will differ from the original, or the rebase
process will fail. Neither is desirable.
So work around this issue by replacing the echo statements used to print
out portions of the commit message, with printf.
Also, add a test to test for this breakage.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you use this feature regularly you can now enable it by default. In
case the user wants to override this config on the commandline
--no-autosquash can be used to force disabling.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Case arms should align with "case" and "esac".
Do not cat a file into a pipeline; just make the downstream command
read from the file.
Having a while statement as a downstream of a pipe is fine, but
the loop should begin on its own line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Untracked content in the working tree may prevent rebase -i from checking out
the new base onto which it wants to replay commits, if the new base commit
includes files at those (now untracked) paths. Currently, rebase -i dies
uncleanly in this situation, updating ORIG_HEAD and leaving a useless
.git/rebase-merge directory, with which the user can do nothing useful except
rebase --abort. Make rebase -i abort the procedure itself instead, as
non-interactive rebase already does, and add a test for this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Ian Ward Comfort <icomfort@stanford.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you do a "rebase -i" and don't change any commits,
nothing is rewritten, and we have no REWRITTEN_LIST. The
shell prints out an ugly message:
$ GIT_EDITOR=true git rebase -i HEAD^
/path/to/git-rebase--interactive: 1: cannot open
/path/to/repo/.git/rebase-merge/rewritten-list: No such file
Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/master.
We can fix it by not running "notes copy" at all if nothing
was rewritten.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The post-rewrite support, in the form of the call to
'record_in_rewritten', was hidden in the arm where we have to record a
new commit for the user. This meant that it was never invoked in the
case where the user has already amended the commit by herself.
[The test is designed to exercise both arms of the 'if' in question.]
Furthermore, recording the stopped-sha (the SHA1 of the commit before
the editing) suffered from a cut&paste error from die_with_patch and
used the wrong variable, hence it never recorded anything.
Noticed by Junio.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For git-rebase.sh, --no-ff is a synonym for --force-rebase.
For git-rebase--interactive.sh, --no-ff cherry-picks all the commits in
the rebased branch, instead of fast-forwarding over any unchanged commits.
--no-ff offers an alternative way to deal with reverted merges. Instead of
"reverting the revert" you can use "rebase --no-ff" to recreate the branch
with entirely new commits (they're new because at the very least the
committer time is different). This obviates the need to revert the
reversion, as you can re-merge the new topic branch directly. Added an
addendum to revert-a-faulty-merge.txt describing the situation and how to
use --no-ff to handle it.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git rebase allows you to specify a non-branch commit-ish as the "branch"
argument, which leaves HEAD detached when it's finished. This is
occasionally useful, and this patch brings the same functionality to git
rebase --interactive.
Signed-off-by: Dave Olszewski <cxreg@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Luckily, all the support already happens to be there.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Aside from the same issue that rebase also has (remembering the
original commit across a conflict resolution), rebase -i brings an
extra twist: We need to defer writing the rewritten list in the case
of {squash,fixup} because their rewritten result should be the last
commit in the squashed group.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rough structure of run_rewrite_hook() comes from
run_receive_hook() in receive-pack.
We introduce a --no-post-rewrite option and use it to avoid the hook
when called from git-rebase -i 'edit'. The next patch will add full
support in git-rebase, and we only want to invoke the hook once.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Bash (4.0.24) on OpenBSD 4.6 refuses to run this snippet:
$ cat gomi.sh
#!/bin/sh
one="/var/tmp/1 1"
rm -f /var/tmp/1 "/var/tmp/1 1"
echo hello >$one
$ sh gomi.sh; ls /var/tmp/1*
/var/tmp/1 1
$ bash gomi.sh; ls /var/tmp/1*
gomi.sh: line 4: $one: ambiguous redirect
ls: /var/tmp/1*: No such file or directory
Every competent shell programmer knows that a <$word in redirection is not
subject to field splitting (POSIX.1 "2.7 Redirection" explicitly lists the
kind of expansion performed: "... the word that follows the redirection
operator shall be subjected to ...", and "Field Splitting" is not among
them).
Some clueless folks apparently decided that users need to be protected in
the name of "security", however.
Output from "git grep -e '> *\$' -- '*.sh'" indicates that rebase-i
suffers from this bogus "safety". Work it around by surrounding the
variable reference with a dq pair.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using a dollar sign in double quotes isn't portable. Escape them with
a backslash or replace the double quotes with single quotes.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no point doing self-assignments of these variables. Instead,
just export them to the environment, but do so in a sub-shell, because
VAR1=VAL1 VAR2=VAL2 ... command arg1 arg2...
does not mark the variables exported if command that is run
is a shell function, according to POSIX.1.
The callers of do_with_author do not rely on seeing the effect of any
shell variable assignments that may happen inside what was called through
this shell function (currently "output" is the only one), so running it in
the subshell doesn't have an adverse semantic effect.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a squash/fixup fails due to a conflict, the user is required to
edit the commit message. Previously, if further squash/fixup commands
followed the conflicting squash/fixup, this user-edited message was
discarded and a new automatically-generated commit message was
suggested.
Change the handling of conflicts within squash/fixup command series:
Whenever the user is required to intervene, consider the resulting
commit to be a new basis for the following squash/fixups and use its
commit message in later suggested combined commit messages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the "rebase -i" commands include a series of fixup commands without
any squash commands, then commit the combined commit using the commit
message of the corresponding "pick" without starting up the
commit-message editor.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Alter the file $SQUASH_MSG in place rather than outputting the new
message then juggling it around. Change the function name
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Call it instead of repeating similar code blocks in several places.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change has no practical effect but makes the code easier to
follow.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
...instead of repeating the same short but slightly obscure blob of
code in several places.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Read the old count from the first line of the old commit message
rather than counting the number of commit message blocks in the file.
This is simpler, faster, and more robust (e.g., it cannot be confused
by strange commit message contents).
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the numeral "2" instead of the word "two" when two commits are
being interactively squashed. This makes the treatment consistent
with that for higher numbers of commits.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a constant AMEND holding the filename of the $DOTEST/amend file,
and document how this temporary file is used.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a constant AUTHOR_SCRIPT, holding the filename of the
$DOTEST/author_script file, and document how this temporary file is
used.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add documentation, inferred by reverse-engineering, about how
git-rebase--interactive.sh uses many of its temporary files.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The filename constant $MSG was previously used in some places and
written out literally in others.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inline expression when generating output rather than overwriting the
"sha1" local variable with a short SHA1.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This branch of the "if" is only executed if $no_ff is empty, which
only happens if $1 was not '-n'. (This code has been dead since
1d25c8cf82eead72e11287d574ef72d3ebec0db1.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test $no_ff separately rather than testing it indirectly by gluing it
onto a comparison of two SHA1s.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, blank lines and/or comments within a series of
squash/fixup commands would confuse "git rebase -i" into thinking that
the series was finished. It would therefore require the user to edit
the commit message for the squash/fixup commits seen so far. Then,
after continuing, it would ask the user to edit the commit message
again.
Ignore comments and blank lines within a group of squash/fixup
commands, allowing them to be processed in one go.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, blank lines and/or comments within a series of
squash/fixup commands would confuse "git rebase -i" into thinking that
the series was finished. It would therefore require the user to edit
the commit message for the squash/fixup commits seen so far. Then,
after continuing, it would ask the user to edit the commit message
again.
Ignore comments and blank lines within a group of squash/fixup
commands, allowing them to be processed in one go.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When rewriting commits on a topic branch, sometimes it is easier to
compare the version of commits before and after the rewrite if they are
based on the same commit that forked from the upstream. An earlier commit
by Junio (fixed up by the previous commit) gives "--onto A...B" syntax to
rebase command, and rebases on top of the merge base between A and B;
teach the same to the interactive version, too.
Signed-off-by: しらいし ななこ <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach a new option, --autosquash, to the interactive rebase.
When the commit log message begins with "!fixup ...", and there
is a commit whose title begins with the same ..., automatically
modify the todo list of rebase -i so that the commit marked for
squashing come right after the commit to be modified, and change
the action of the moved commit from pick to squash.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user's configured editor is emacsclient, the editor
will fail to launch if emacs is not running and the git
command that tried to lanuch the editor will abort. For most
commands, all you have to do is to start emacs and repeat
the command.
The "git rebase -i" command, however, aborts without cleaning
the "$GIT_DIR/rebase-merge" directory if it fails to launch the
editor, so you'll need to do "git rebase --abort" before
repeating the rebase command.
Change "git rebase -i" to terminate using "die_abort" (instead of
with "die") if the initial launch of the editor fails.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command is like "squash", except that it discards the commit message
of the corresponding commit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jonathan Nieder