The following command $ git cherry-pick --ff b8bb3f writes the following uninformative message to the reflog cherry-pick Improve it to cherry-pick: fast-forward Avoid hard-coding "cherry-pick" in fast_forward_to(), so the sequencer is generic enough to support future actions. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - fast_forward_to() now takes opts to determine action_name() - strbuf_release() to free memory sequencer.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index ab6f8a7..423c1f5 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -270,15 +270,20 @@ static int error_dirty_index(struct replay_opts *opts) } static int fast_forward_to(const unsigned char *to, const unsigned char *from, - int unborn) + int unborn, struct replay_opts *opts) { struct ref_lock *ref_lock; + struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; + int ret; read_cache(); if (checkout_fast_forward(from, to, 1)) exit(1); /* the callee should have complained already */ ref_lock = lock_any_ref_for_update("HEAD", unborn ? null_sha1 : from, 0); - return write_ref_sha1(ref_lock, to, "cherry-pick"); + strbuf_addf(&sb, "%s: fast-forward", action_name(opts)); + ret = write_ref_sha1(ref_lock, to, sb.buf); + strbuf_release(&sb); + return ret; } static int do_recursive_merge(struct commit *base, struct commit *next, @@ -523,7 +528,7 @@ static int do_pick_commit(struct commit *commit, struct replay_opts *opts) if (opts->allow_ff && ((parent && !hashcmp(parent->object.sha1, head)) || (!parent && unborn))) - return fast_forward_to(commit->object.sha1, head, unborn); + return fast_forward_to(commit->object.sha1, head, unborn, opts); if (parent && parse_commit(parent) < 0) /* TRANSLATORS: The first %s will be "revert" or -- 1.8.3.1.449.g41b32a4.dirty -- 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