The branch-flipping rebase -i internally does is not 'checkout' as far
as the end-user is concerned; therefore, rebase -i should never write
"checkout: " messages to the reflog. To achieve this, set a sensible
GIT_REFLOG_ACTION; checkout does not respect this variable yet, but a
future patch will change this.
After that patch, rebase -i will write the following line to the reflog
when started:
rebase -i (start): checkout master
This is much better than the confusing message it currently writes:
checkout: moving from master to 1462b67
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <redacted>
---
git-rebase--interactive.sh | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index f953d8d..0f04425 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ comment_for_reflog start
if test ! -z "$switch_to"
then
+ GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $switch_to"
output git checkout "$switch_to" -- ||
die "Could not checkout $switch_to"
fi
@@ -981,6 +982,7 @@ has_action "$todo" ||
test -d "$rewritten" || test -n "$force_rebase" || skip_unnecessary_picks
+GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $onto_name"
output git checkout $onto || die_abort "could not detach HEAD"
git update-ref ORIG_HEAD $orig_head
do_rest
--
1.8.3.1.443.g4fd77b9