Re: [PATCH 4/6] sequencer: avoid empty lines after 'update-ref' instructions

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> writes:

>>   pick 29a79f8 two
>>   pick 74bf293 three
>>   # Ref refs/heads/branch3 checked out at '/tmp/test/WT'
>> 
>>   update-ref refs/heads/branch2
>> 
>>   update-ref refs/heads/branch1
>> 
>>   pick 5f59b82 four
>> 
>> Eliminate those empty lines.
>
> After this change, I think the end result is this:
>
>   pick 29a79f8 two
>   pick 74bf293 three
>   # Ref refs/heads/branch3 checked out at '/tmp/test/WT'
>   update-ref refs/heads/branch2
>   update-ref refs/heads/branch1
>   pick 5f59b82 four
>
> Specifically, there is no whitespace break between the last
> 'update-ref' command and the next 'pick' command. Since the
> 'update-ref' commands likely correspond to chunks of changes,
> it would be nice to still have that whitespace remain. I
> agree that the whitespace between the comments and previous
> 'update-ref' commands is wasteful, but I'd rather leave the
> wasteful (and usually rare) whitespace than lose the helpful
> whitespace.
>
> There is precedent for this kind of whitespace when using
> '--rebase-merges'.
>
> If you can find a nice way to add a line of whitespace between
> these lines and the next instruction type, then I fully
> support this change.

Sounds like it is sensible to omit this step for now from this
series.  Thanks.