In the upcoming commits, we will teach the sequencer to recreate merges.
This will be done in a very different way from the unfortunate design of
`git rebase --preserve-merges` (which does not allow for reordering
commits, or changing the branch topology).
The main idea is to introduce new todo list commands, to support
labeling the current revision with a given name, resetting the current
revision to a previous state, and merging labeled revisions.
This idea was developed in Git for Windows' Git garden shears (that are
used to maintain the "thicket of branches" on top of upstream Git), and
this patch is part of the effort to make it available to a wider
audience, as well as to make the entire process more robust (by
implementing it in a safe and portable language rather than a Unix shell
script).
This commit implements the commands to label, and to reset to, given
revisions. The syntax is:
label <name>
reset <name>
Internally, the `label <name>` command creates the ref
`refs/rewritten/<name>`. This makes it possible to work with the labeled
revisions interactively, or in a scripted fashion (e.g. via the todo
list command `exec`).
These temporary refs are removed upon sequencer_remove_state(), so that
even a `git rebase --abort` cleans them up.
We disallow '#' as label because that character will be used as separator
in the upcoming `merge` command.
Later in this patch series, we will mark the `refs/rewritten/` refs as
worktree-local, to allow for interactive rebases to be run in parallel in
worktrees linked to the same repository.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>