Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] t/lib-rebase: change the implementation of commands with options
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-08 21:38:28
Charvi Mendiratta [off-list ref] writes:
However, "fixup" is very different from "exec". Its arguments are not arbitrary at all, so there isn't a good reason to mirror the choice of "_" to represent a space, which leads to rather unsightly tokens such as "fixup_-C". Let's replace it with simpler tokens such as "fixup-C" and "fixup-c".
Sadly, I have to say that this change may be making the developer experience worse. To use the original, test writers only need to remember a single rule: "when a single command needs to embed a SP, replace it with underscore" regardless of which insn they are listing in FAKE_LINES. Now they need to remember that rule only applies to exec, and merge and fixup uses a different rule, namely, a SP immediately before a dash must be removed. So, if I didn't know you folks have invested enough hours in this patch, I would have said not to do this, but it is such a small change, its effect isolated to only those who would be writing tests for "rebase -i", it may be OK to let them endure a bit additional burden to remember an extra rule with this patch. I dunno.