Re: [PATCH 08/10] revert: Introduce HEAD, TODO files to persist state, plan

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Almost there.  To comfort overly-worried people like me that think we
> have not finished converted all die() calls yet, wouldn't this need to
> look like
>
>        persist_head(head);
>        while ((commit = ...)) {
>                int status_or_error;
>
>                /*
>                 * Checkpoint.  If do_pick_commit exits, make sure the user
>                 * can still use "git cherry-pick --continue" to recover.
>                 */
>                persist_todo(revs.commits, opts);
>
>                status_or_error = do_pick_commit(...);
>                if (status_or_error)
>                        return status_or_error;
>        }
>
>        /* Success! */
>        remove_todo(opts);
>        remove_head();
>        return 0;

You told me about this on IRC last night, but I forgot to squash the
relevant patch into this series. Thanks :)

> And with that, this would no longer depend on the (valuable enough on
> their own terms) patches 1 and 2 so they could be treated as a
> separate series, no?

Yes, but I'd like to keep 1 and 2 in this series, if that's alright.
Another series will have to take care of error handling more
extensively.
With a few tests, would it be useful to get this series merged in? It
implements '--abort', which is already useful.

-- Ram