Hi Steve, On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Steve Hicks wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin > <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Stephen Hicks <sdh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > In the scripted version of the interactive rebase, there was no > > internal representation of the todo list; it was re-read before every > > command. That allowed the hack that an `exec` command could append > > (or even completely rewrite) the todo list. > > > > This hack was broken by the partial conversion of the interactive > > rebase to C, and this patch reinstates it. > > > > We also add a small test to verify that this fix does not regress in > > the future. > > For context on this "hack", I have a script [1] that allows passing > multiple branches at once (or all branches beneath a given root). It > rewrites the todo file with some extra operations, like "branch", > "push", and "pop", allows editing the modified todo, and then rewrites > back to exec's. For what it's worth, I used a slightly different approach in the Git garden shears [*1*] (essentially, `git rebase -i -p` Done Right): I override the GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR to call the script in a specific mode that rewrites the todo and then launches the editor as per `git var GIT_EDITOR`. Ciao, Johannes Footnote *1*: https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/shears.sh