Re: [PATCH 2/2] rebase -i: use some kind of config file to save author information

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Hi,

On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Christian Couder wrote:
> > The problem with this is that it will take a lot of time to implement
> > the features that have been added to rebase -i since the sequencer
> > stalled, then to polish it, and to get it reviewed and so on, and
> > during that time other features or changes may be implemented by other
> > people.
> >
> > So I prefer to use code from the current sequencer (at
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/git/sbeyer.git) to start porting step by step
> > rebase -i to C.
>
> I think that the best way to go forward would be to have something like
> fetch--tool, i.e. a builtin helper that successively takes more and more
> functionality into C.

Yeah, I started working on something like that.

> IMHO a first sensible step would be to implement the commands ("pick",
> "squash", "edit") in such a helper, and call them from do_next().
>
> That should take care of the most difficult part, getting the transition
> started.

I agree that it looks like a good way forward.

> But I had the impression that the sequencer started out almost like this,
> but then it also wanted to implement the do_next() and everything.

Yeah, I think at some steps we got something close to that.

Thanks,
Christian.
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