At the center of the "interactive" part of the interactive rebase lies
the todo list. When the user starts an interactive rebase, a todo list
is generated, presented to the user (who then edits it using a text
editor), read back, and then is checked and processed before the actual
rebase takes place.
Some of this processing includes adding execs commands, reordering
fixup! and squash! commits, and checking if no commits were accidentally
dropped by the user.
Before I converted the interactive rebase in C, these functions were
called by git-rebase--interactive.sh through git-rebase--helper. Since
the only way to pass around a large amount of data between a shell
script and a C program is to use a file (or any declination of a file),
the functions that checked and processed the todo list were directly
working on a file, the same file that the user edited.
During the conversion, I did not address this issue, which lead to a
complete_action() that reads the todo list file, does some computation
based on its content, and writes it back to the disk, several times in
the same function.
As it is not an efficient way to handle a data structure, this patch
series refactor the functions that processes the todo list to work on a
todo_list structure instead of reading it from the disk.
Some commits consists in modifying edit_todo_list() (initially used by
--edit-todo) to handle the initial edition of the todo list, to increase
code sharing.
This is based on nd/the-index (36e7ed69de, "rebase-interactive.c: remove
the_repository references"), as it introduced a lot of conflicts. The
result does not conflict with pu (e31bc98f4b, "Merge branch
'md/list-objects-filter-by-depth' into pu").
Changes since v3:
- Replacing the 'arg' field from todo_item by 'arg_offset' to avoid
dealing with pointers on the todo list buffer in
todo_list_add_exec_commands(). This has led to some additionnal
changes.
- Rewording some commits.
- Dropping the commit "sequencer: fix a call to error() in
transform_todo_file()". The call to error() after reading the todo
file is replaced by error_errno() in "sequencer: refactor
transform_todos() to work on a todo_list". The same change has been
applied to sequencer_add_exec_commands() in "sequencer: refactor
sequencer_add_exec_commands() to work on a todo_list".
- transform_todo_file(), sequencer_add_exec_commands() and
rearrange_squash_in_todo_file() now print an error if they fail to
write to the todo file.
- A lot of changes were introduced by the conflict resolution with
nd/the-index.
Alban Gruin (16):
sequencer: changes in parse_insn_buffer()
sequencer: make the todo_list structure public
sequencer: remove the 'arg' field from todo_item
sequencer: refactor transform_todos() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: introduce todo_list_write_to_file()
sequencer: refactor check_todo_list() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: refactor sequencer_add_exec_commands() to work on a
todo_list
sequencer: refactor rearrange_squash() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: make sequencer_make_script() write its script to a strbuf
sequencer: change complete_action() to use the refactored functions
sequencer: refactor skip_unnecessary_picks() to work on a todo_list
rebase-interactive: use todo_list_write_to_file() in edit_todo_list()
rebase-interactive: append_todo_help() changes
rebase-interactive: rewrite edit_todo_list() to handle the initial
edit
sequencer: use edit_todo_list() in complete_action()
rebase--interactive: move transform_todo_file() to
rebase--interactive.c
builtin/rebase--interactive.c | 90 +++--
rebase-interactive.c | 143 +++++--
rebase-interactive.h | 8 +-
sequencer.c | 677 +++++++++++++---------------------
sequencer.h | 82 +++-
5 files changed, 525 insertions(+), 475 deletions(-)
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