Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD

When a cherry-pick conflicts git advises:

 $ git commit -c <original commit id>

to preserve the original commit message and authorship. Instead, let's
record the original commit id in CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and advise:

  $ git commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD

A later patch teaches git to handle the '-c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' part.
Note that we record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even in the case where there
are no conflicts so that we may use it to communicate authorship to
commit; this will then allow us to remove set_author_ident_env from
revert.c. However, we do not record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when --no-commit
is used, as presumably the user intends to further edit the commit
and possibly even cherry-pick additional commits on top.

Tests and documentation contributed by Jonathan Nieder.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jay Soffian
2011-02-19 23:12:27 -05:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 2161da1039
commit d7e5c0cbfb
7 changed files with 132 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -1424,6 +1424,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
die("cannot update HEAD ref");
}
unlink(git_path("CHERRY_PICK_HEAD"));
unlink(git_path("MERGE_HEAD"));
unlink(git_path("MERGE_MSG"));
unlink(git_path("MERGE_MODE"));