Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: give rerere a chance

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > @@ -166,13 +167,13 @@ pick_one_preserving_merges () {
> >  			msg="$(git cat-file commit $sha1 | sed -e '1,/^$/d')"
> >  			# No point in merging the first parent, that's HEAD
> >  			new_parents=${new_parents# $first_parent}
> > -			# NEEDSWORK: give rerere a chance
> >  			if ! GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" \
> >  				GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" \
> >  				GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE" \
> >  				output git merge $STRATEGY -m "$msg" \
> >  					$new_parents
> >  			then
> > +				git rerere
> 
> This comment is not about this rerere change, but output is a shell
> function and I vaguely recall we had a discussion on "VAR=VAL cmd" form
> of single-shot export not working for them as expected...

Hmm.  What do you propose?  In the long run, I _want_ to have rebase as a 
builtin, which would solve this problem, probably.  But in the short run?

Ciao,
Dscho