Re: [PATCH/RFC 01/10] Teach rebase interactive the mark command

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

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Except of this, I prefer to use the colon to be much closer to the syntax
of fast-import.

Me too, but it looks like in a human edited "TODO" script we may want
to be more friendly and allow named marks.  Though I'm not sure that is
really all that useful.  If you are merging something because it used to
be merged before the rebase I doubt we'd generate a meaningful mark name
when the TODO script is initially formatted.

I'd say a small integer is the only thing we would need.  The TODO insn
sequence would be machine generated then manually tweaked, not the other
way around.

Regarding colon vs pound, I would say that the 'mark' insn can just say
"2" to set the second mark, and then store it in refs/marks/2; the
commands that refer to the commit later can use the usual "refs/marks/2"
or "marks/2" syntax without colon nor pound nor any other special syntax
that way.