We generate the squash commit message incrementally running
a sed script once for each commit. It parses "This is
a combination of <N> commits" from the first line of the
existing message, adds one to <N>, and uses the result as
the number of our current message.
Since
f2d17068fd (i18n: rebase-interactive: mark comments of
squash for translation, 2016-06-17), the first line may be
localized, and sed uses a pretty liberal regex, looking for:
/^#.*([0-9][0-9]*)/
The "[0-9][0-9]*" tries to match double digits, but it
doesn't quite work. The first ".*" is greedy, so if you
have:
This is a combination of 10 commits.
it will eat up "This is a combination of 1", leaving "0" to
match the first "[0-9]" digit, and then skipping the
optional match of "[0-9]*".
As a result, the count resets every 10 commits, and a
15-commit squash would end up as:
# This is a combination of 5 commits.
# This is the 1st commit message:
...
# This is the commit message #2:
... and so on ..
# This is the commit message #10:
...
# This is the commit message #1:
...
# This is the commit message #2:
... etc, up to 5 ...
We can fix this by making the ".*" less greedy. Instead of
depending on ".*?" working portably, we can just limit the
match to non-digit characters, which accomplishes the same
thing.
Reported-by: Brandon Tolsch <btolsch@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>