Re: [PATCH] rebase: cleanup "--exec" option handling

[Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>]

On 12/01/2023 17:50, Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
> 
> When handling "--exec" rebase collects the commands into a struct
> string_list, then prepends "exec " to each command creating a multi line
> string and finally splits that string back into a list of commands. This
> is an artifact of the scripted rebase and the need to support "rebase
> --preserve-merges". Now that "--preserve-merges" no-longer exists we can
> cleanup the way the argument is handled. There is no need to add the
> "exec " prefix to the commands as that is added by todo_list_to_strbuf().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
> ---
>      rebase: cleanup "--exec" option handling
>      
>      A small cleanup following the removal of "--preserve-merges"
> 
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1461%2Fphillipwood%2Frebase-cleanup-exec-handling-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1461/phillipwood/rebase-cleanup-exec-handling-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1461
> 
>   builtin/rebase.c | 45 +++++++++++----------------------------------
>   sequencer.c      |  4 ++--
>   2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 

I can't really comment on code, but I appreciate any simplifications
around `rebase --exec`, because it will probably make it easier for
me to revive the topic about `rebase --edit-todo --exec` from the
end of 2019:

     https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191114163549.7648-1-rybak.a.v@gmail.com/T/#u

It's current state (experimented a bit a week ago) is on GitHub:

     https://github.com/rybak/git/tree/edit-todo-exec

Thank you.