Re: Problems with ra/rebase-i-more-options - should we revert it?

Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

On 12/01/2020 16:12, Phillip Wood wrote:

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I'm concerned that there are some bugs in this series and think
it may be best to revert it before releasing 2.25.0.

Let's do that.

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Jonathan
Nieder posted a bug report on Friday [1] which I think is caused
by this series. While trying to reproduce Jonathan's bug I came
up with the test below which fails, but not in the same way.

Doh I forgot to add --committer-date-is-author-date to the rebase
command line in that test. It passes with that added - how
embarrassing. However it does appear that it prefixes the date in
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE with @@ rather than @.

start of the epoch and fails to parse it. The fix for the @@ is
quite simple, the date we read from the author script already has
an @ so we don't need to add another.

Yes, that sounds like a minimum and straightforward fix.

In any case, the tip of 'master' (hence the one that would become
the final) is simpler to remedy by just reverting the merge, but
there are a handful of in-flight topics that may have been queued by
forking 'master' after the problematic merge was made (iow, anything
after the fifth batch for this cycle), which I'd have to be a bit
careful when I merge them down, lest they attempt to pull in the bad
topic again.  But that will be something we need to worry about
after the release, not before the final.

Thanks.


[Footnote]

*1* The list of still-in-flight topics that may be contaminated with
    the merge of ra/rebase-i-more-options into 'master' are:

    am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases
    am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests
    bc/hash-independent-tests-part-7
    dl/merge-autostash
    ds/graph-horizontal-edges
    en/rebase-backend
    es/bugreport
    es/pathspec-f-f-grep
    hi/gpg-mintrustlevel
    hw/advice-add-nothing
    jn/promote-proto2-to-default
    jn/test-lint-one-shot-export-to-shell-function
    kw/fsmonitor-watchman-racefix
    sg/completion-worktree
    yz/p4-py3

I probably may requeue them by rebasing on top of 2.25 once the
release is done.