Re: sequencer status

[Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com>]

Le 23/08/2017 à 19:57, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com> writes:
>
>> Two questions:
>> - Could this be a candidate for contrib/ ?
>> - Would it be interesting to add the relevant code to sequencer.c
>> so that all sequencer based commands could have a --status option
> I actually think we would want a "git sequencer" command, which can
> be fed an arbitrary instruction sheet created by a third-party and
> told to "run" it.  A new command $cmd that wants to rewrite history
> (like "rebase -i", "cherry-pick A..B", etc. do) can only concentrate
> on preparing the sequence of instructions and then internally invoke
> "git sequencer run" until it gives the control back to the end user.
> When the user tells $cmd to continue, it can relay that request to
> "git sequencer continue" under the hood.  
> Once its use is established, it might be even possible to let users
> run "git sequencer continue", bypassing frontends for individual
> commands, e.g. "git cherry-pick --continue", etc., but I do not know
> if that is generally a good idea or not.  In any case, having such a
> front-end will help third-party scripts that want to build a custom
> workflow using the sequecing machinery we have.
>
> And in such a world, we would need "git sequencer status" command
> to give us where in a larger sequence of instrutions we are.  
>
> So I tend to think this should be part of the core, not contrib/,
> and should become part of a new command "git sequencer".

I like your idea. I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to do this (by myself at least).
If someone (hopefully more familiar with the sequencer code than me) wants to work on this, I'd gladly help.

Nicolas