Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Nit: GIT_CHERRY_PICK_HELP is not just for rebase --interactive but
for arbitrary porcelain that wants to take care of the commit itself
(see v1.5.4-rc0~106^2~1, revert/cherry-pick: Allow overriding the
help text by the calling Porcelain, 2007-11-28).

What is the arbitrary porcelain you have in mind? :-)

The conservative thing to do is indeed to remove CHERRY_PICK_HEAD in
this case, I suppose.  But I'd like to have the CHERRY_PICK_HEAD to
get the --amend safety when rebasing.  I can send a separate patch
for it if you'd like.

Please do, since I'm not really sure what you have in mind. If
CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is left-behind, it interferes with the eventually
commit done by rebase --continue. I suppose we could give commit.c
some additional logic to detect when it's being called by rebase
(setting whence = FROM_REBASE?).

In the mean time, I'll re-roll with your additional tests and Junio's
prior feedback.

Thanks,

j.