Re: [PATCH] rebase: convert revert to squash on autosquash

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 01:13:51PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi Michael,

On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 05:23:09PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

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Reverts can typically be treated like squash.  Eliminating both the
original commit and the revert would be even nicer, but this seems a bit
harder to implement.

Whoa. This rings a lot of alarm bells, very loudly.

Whoa don't be alarmed. It's just a patch :).

It's just a patch. Like every major breakage would be. So: no, there is
reason to be alarmed if it is likely to disrupt normal usage.

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It seems you intend to introduce a *major* change in behavior,

Doing this automatically for all users might be a bit too drastic for
the upstream git.

That is a pretty safe thing to say, even without the subjunctive.

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If there's a commit later followed by a revert, history can be
simplified by squashing them, and if the result is empty, removing both.

True. But that is not what the user told Git to do. If the user's
intention was to squash the reverting patch, she could have easily done
this:

	git revert -n deadbeef
	git commit --squash deadbeef

where "deadbeef" is the placeholder for the actual commit to revert.

And indeed, I use exactly this song and dance quite frequently, *iff* my
intention is to drop a patch.

Well then you have to decide whether you want to drop it
when you commit.
If *I* want do drop the patch when I commit, I just do
git rebase.

A much better idea than co-opting the "Revert" commit message would be to
introduce a sibling to --fixup and --squash that you could call --drop.

Ciao,
Johannes

Maybe but it's a different usecase.

What this addresses is a case where you first wanted to
avoid rebases, so you reverted.
But then you rebased after all.
Now finding what was reverted automatically is helpful.