[GSoC update] Iterating over a stable series

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Hi,

The post midterm work is suffering because I'm constantly rewriting
the sequencer-stable series: I often resort to throwing away big
patches that move functions from builtin/revert.c to sequencer.c.
Hopefully, the latest iteration [1] will not require rewriting.

I'd like some early feedback for one of the "design patches" in my new
series: I've chosen to use a commit + action to represent a todo_list.
I'd initially tried a commit + opts keeping future expantion in mind
(allowing instruction-specific command-line options), but the result
is quite inelegant.  Although commit message/ tests are missing, I'd
like to describe the intent in detail:

This patch is a prerequisite for decoupling todo parsing from opts
parsing.  I want to decouple them so that I can achieve tighter
coupling between "git commit" and the sequencer [2].  After that, I
want to craft a nice API and move/ expose various functions in
builtin/revert.c starting with the parsing functions.

Thanks for reading.

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/178372
[2]: http://mid.gmane.org/CALkWK0=9kwgtZB-BA12tOQrQXS8XRbhTg6K=Ak00o2nurX16Fg@mail.gmail.com

Ramkumar Ramachandra (1):
  revert: Allow arbitrary sequencer instructions

 builtin/revert.c |  101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 sequencer.h      |   10 +++++
 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

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