[PATCH v4 1/1] sequencer: finish parsing the todo list despite an invalid first line

[Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>]

ddb81e5072 (rebase-interactive: use todo_list_write_to_file() in
edit_todo_list(), 2019-03-05) made edit_todo_list more efficient by
replacing transform_todo_file with todo_list_parse_insn_buffer.
Unfortunately, that innocuous change caused a regression because
todo_list_parse_insn_buffer would stop parsing after encountering an
invalid 'fixup' line. If the user accidentally made the first line a
'fixup' and tried to recover from their mistake with `git rebase
--edit-todo`, all of the commands after the first would be lost.

To avoid throwing away important parts of the todo list, change
todo_list_parse_insn_buffer to keep going and not return early on error.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
---
 sequencer.c                   |  2 +-
 t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index cc9821ece2..adc9cfb4df 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -2702,7 +2702,7 @@ int todo_list_parse_insn_buffer(struct repository *r, char *buf,
 		if (fixup_okay)
 			; /* do nothing */
 		else if (is_fixup(item->command))
-			return error(_("cannot '%s' without a previous commit"),
+			res = error(_("cannot '%s' without a previous commit"),
 				command_to_string(item->command));
 		else if (!is_noop(item->command))
 			fixup_okay = 1;
diff --git a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
index ff0afad63e..8ffd2a7318 100755
--- a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
+++ b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
@@ -1596,6 +1596,24 @@ test_expect_success 'static check of bad command' '
 	test C = $(git cat-file commit HEAD^ | sed -ne \$p)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'the first command cannot be a fixup' '
+	rebase_setup_and_clean fixup-first &&
+	(
+		set_fake_editor &&
+		test_must_fail env FAKE_LINES="fixup 1 2 3 4" \
+			       git rebase -i HEAD~4 2>actual &&
+		grep "cannot .fixup. without a previous commit" actual &&
+		grep "You can fix this with .git rebase --edit-todo.." actual &&
+		grep -v "^#" .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo >orig &&
+		test_must_fail git rebase --edit-todo 2>actual &&
+		grep "cannot .fixup. without a previous commit" actual &&
+		grep "You can fix this with .git rebase --edit-todo.." actual &&
+		grep -v "^#" .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo >actual &&
+		# check that --edit-todo did not lose any of the todo list
+		test_cmp orig actual
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'tabs and spaces are accepted in the todolist' '
 	rebase_setup_and_clean indented-comment &&
 	write_script add-indent.sh <<-\EOF &&
-- 
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