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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [GSoC 2011] Git Sequencer
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:23:28 +0200
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Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
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To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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On Monday 04 April 2011 07:20:18 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> > Yeah, the first step should be 'cherry-pick' with '--continue',
> > '--abort', and '--skip' merged.
> 
> I haven't looked at rebase-i machinery recently, but I wonder if it would
> just be a matter of making a multi-commit cherry-pick just prepare a bunch
> of "pick XXX" lines into .git/rebase-merge/rebase-todo file, make other
> trivial setups (like detaching HEAD, writing head-name and head files) and
> then execing "git rebase --continue"?

It is probably quite easy to do that, but it would result in cherry-pick in C 
calling rebase-i in shell that itself calls cherry-pick in C (to pick 
individual commit). Instead with this GSoC I think we have the opportunity to 
have everything we needed in C.

Best regards,
Christian.