On mercredi 09 décembre 2009, Christian Couder wrote: > Hi, > > On mardi 08 décembre 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > Heya, > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 21:22, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > But I think it is a reasonable thing to _implement_ the feature to > > > range-pick commits reusing the sequencing logic already in "rebase" > > > and "rebase -i". That essentially is what we wanted to do with "git > > > sequencer" that would be a sequencing logic backend shared among > > > rebase, cherry-pick, and perhaps am. > > > > Speaking of which, what's the status of git sequencer? I seem to > > remember some activity recently to slowly rewrite git rebase in c, but > > I haven't seen anything since then. Is it still moving forward? Is > > anyone interested in doing so? Just curious... > > Last June and July, I sent some patch series to port "rebase -i" to C > using code from the sequencer project. My goal was to save some > interesting code from the sequencer GSoC 2008 project and at the same > time to move forward "rebase -i" code toward a sequencer. > > But Dscho and Junio didn't like the fact that the code from the sequencer > I added was duplicating existing code and was not properly refactored, > though it also added things that would be needed later for the sequencer. > My plan was to refactor later, once I had a sequencer, but Junio and > Dscho did not like that plan. They said it would be a too big maintenance > burden. > > So I agreed to not duplicate any existing code and to properly refactor > everything. And I have been trying to take interesting and useful code > from the sequencer project and to integrate it into existing commands. > And this is why I sent yesterday the 4th version of my '"git reset > --merge" related improvements' patch series. After that I plan to work on cherry-pick and that could be useful to implement something like "git cherry-pick A..B". See patch 11/15 from Stephan Beyer in my last "port rebase -i to C" series: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/127256/focus=127259 Regards, Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html