Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] Sequencer Foundations

On Sunday 10 April 2011 17:11:46 Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

Hi,

I've started working on building a sequencer for Git.  

So you are starting the GSoC early! Great!
When (or before) it really starts, just make sure you put your work on a 
public Git repository and you send status updates regularly (weekly if 
possible).

3. From the format of the TODO and DONE files, one more thing should
be clear- I'm trying to stick to a slight variation of the 'rebase -i'
format.  This part will go into the sequencer.  Then I'll use a
cherry-pick specific file to keep the command-line options.  Yes, I'm
trying to work on Daniel's idea [3] from the very start.  Is this a
good idea?

I think that the TODO and DONE file format will need at one point to include 
options and it is simpler if this change is done early. Using a cherry-pick 
specific file to keep the options is not very generic for a sequencer that could 
be used for many things.

For example, as we have rebase --interactive, we will probably want to have 
cherry-pick --interactive, and when editing the TODO file we might want to use 
different cherry-pick options when picking different commits.

This would also make the different cherry-pick options available when using 
rebase --interactive once it uses the sequencer.

[1]:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170758/focus=170908
[2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162183 [3]:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170758/focus=170834

[3] is missing here.

Thanks,
Christian.