rebase -i: rewrite setup_reflog_action() in C

This rewrites (the misnamed) setup_reflog_action() from shell to C. The
new version is called prepare_branch_to_be_rebased().

A new command is added to rebase--helper.c, “checkout-base”, as well as
a new flag, “verbose”, to avoid silencing the output of the checkout
operation called by checkout_base_commit().

The function `run_git_checkout()` will also be used in the next commit,
therefore its code is not part of `checkout_base_commit()`.

The shell version is then stripped in favour of a call to the helper.

As $GIT_REFLOG_ACTION is no longer set at the first call of
checkout_onto(), a call to comment_for_reflog() is added at the
beginning of this function.

Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

sequencer.c

@@ -3139,6 +3139,36 @@ static const char *reflog_message(struct replay_opts *opts,
 	return buf.buf;
 }
 
+static int run_git_checkout(struct replay_opts *opts, const char *commit,
+			    const char *action)
+{
+	struct child_process cmd = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+
+	cmd.git_cmd = 1;
+
+	argv_array_push(&cmd.args, "checkout");
+	argv_array_push(&cmd.args, commit);
+	argv_array_pushf(&cmd.env_array, GIT_REFLOG_ACTION "=%s", action);
+
+	if (opts->verbose)
+		return run_command(&cmd);
+	else
+		return run_command_silent_on_success(&cmd);
+}
+
+int prepare_branch_to_be_rebased(struct replay_opts *opts, const char *commit)
+{
+	const char *action;
+
+	if (commit && *commit) {
+		action = reflog_message(opts, "start", "checkout %s", commit);
+		if (run_git_checkout(opts, commit, action))
+			return error(_("could not checkout %s"), commit);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static const char rescheduled_advice[] =
 N_("Could not execute the todo command\n"
 "\n"