Re: Add support for `git rebase -no-edit`

[Chaitanya Tata <chaitanya.tk17@gmail.com>]

Cheers,
Chaitanya.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 1:25 AM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Chaitanya,
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:55:47PM +0530, Chaitanya Tata wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a feature request to add `--no-edit` option to `git rebase`
> > like we do for `git commit`.
> > The workflow I typically follow is:
> >
> > * `git commit -a --fixup=XXX`
> > * `git rebase  -i HEAD~15 --autosquash`
> >
> > But it requires closing the editor without any changes. I can
> > workaround this using the `GIT_EDITOR` option, see [1]. But it would
> > be good to have this built-in.
>
> The easiest workaround would be setting GIT_EDITOR=true, which matches
> the recommendation in [1].
Thanks for the quick response.
>
> Short of that, you can't do a non-interactive rebase, since we rely on
> the todo list generated by interactive rebases in order for
> `--autosquash` to work.
IIUC, creating a todo list needs access to the file used in interactive
rebase?

> Presumably plumbing in a new `--[no-]edit` option would be fairly
> straightforward, and once that is done, the change boils down to just:
I am bit confused by this as this seems to contradict above statement,
I guess the below patch will only work without `--autosquash`? Sorry, not
familiar with git internals.
>
> index 3cc88d8a80..5235a003f2 100644
> --- a/sequencer.c
> +++ b/sequencer.c
> @@ -6169,7 +6169,7 @@ int complete_action(struct repository *r, struct replay_opts *opts, unsigned fla
>         struct todo_list new_todo = TODO_LIST_INIT;
>         struct strbuf *buf = &todo_list->buf, buf2 = STRBUF_INIT;
>         struct object_id oid = onto->object.oid;
> -       int res;
> +       int res = 0;
>
>         repo_find_unique_abbrev_r(r, shortonto, &oid,
>                                   DEFAULT_ABBREV);
> @@ -6197,8 +6197,9 @@ int complete_action(struct repository *r, struct replay_opts *opts, unsigned fla
>                 return error(_("nothing to do"));
>         }
>
> -       res = edit_todo_list(r, todo_list, &new_todo, shortrevisions,
> -                            shortonto, flags);
> +       if (!opts->edit)
> +               res = edit_todo_list(r, todo_list, &new_todo, shortrevisions,
> +                                    shortonto, flags);
>         if (res == -1)
>                 return -1;
>         else if (res == -2) {
>
> > [1] - https://stackoverflow.com/a/45783848
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor