rebase-helper --make-script: introduce a flag to rebase merges

The sequencer just learned new commands intended to recreate branch
structure (similar in spirit to --preserve-merges, but with a
substantially less-broken design).

Let's allow the rebase--helper to generate todo lists making use of
these commands, triggered by the new --rebase-merges option. For a
commit topology like this (where the HEAD points to C):

	- A - B - C
	    \   /
	      D

the generated todo list would look like this:

	# branch D
	pick 0123 A
	label branch-point
	pick 1234 D
	label D

	reset branch-point
	pick 2345 B
	merge -C 3456 D # C

To keep things simple, we first only implement support for merge commits
with exactly two parents, leaving support for octopus merges to a later
patch series.

All merge-rebasing todo lists start with a hard-coded `label onto` line.
This makes it convenient to refer later on to the revision onto which
everything is rebased, e.g. as starting point for branches other than
the very first one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-25 14:29:03 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent d1e8b0114b
commit 1644c73c6d
3 changed files with 349 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ int sequencer_remove_state(struct replay_opts *opts);
#define TODO_LIST_KEEP_EMPTY (1U << 0)
#define TODO_LIST_SHORTEN_IDS (1U << 1)
#define TODO_LIST_ABBREVIATE_CMDS (1U << 2)
#define TODO_LIST_REBASE_MERGES (1U << 3)
int sequencer_make_script(FILE *out, int argc, const char **argv,
unsigned flags);