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When 'git revert' or 'git cherry-pick --edit' is invoked with multiple commits, then after editing the first commit message is finished both these commands should continue with processing the second commit and launch another editor for its commit message, assuming there are no conflicts, of course. Alas, this inadvertently changed with commita47ba3c777(rebase -i: check for updated todo after squash and reword, 2019-08-19): after editing the first commit message is finished, both 'git revert' and 'git cherry-pick --edit' exit with error, claiming that "nothing to commit, working tree clean". The reason for the changed behaviour is twofold: - Prior toa47ba3c777the up-to-dateness of the todo list file was only checked after 'exec' instructions, and that commit moved those checks to the common code path. The intention was that this check should be performed after instructions spawning an editor ('squash' and 'reword') as well, so the ongoing 'rebase -i' notices when the user runs a 'git rebase --edit-todo' while squashing/rewording a commit message. However, as it happened that check is now performed even after 'revert' and 'pick' instructions when they involved editing the commit message. And 'revert' by default while 'pick' optionally (with 'git cherry-pick --edit') involves editing the commit message. - When invoking 'git revert' or 'git cherry-pick --edit' with multiple commits they don't read a todo list file but assemble the todo list in memory, thus the associated stat data used to check whether the file has been updated is all zeroed out initially. Then the sequencer writes all instructions (including the very first) to the todo file, executes the first 'revert/pick' instruction, and after the user finished editing the commit message the changes ofa47ba3c777kick in, and it checks whether the todo file has been modified. The initial all-zero stat data obviously differs from the todo file's current stat data, so the sequencer concludes that the file has been modified. Technically it is not wrong, of course, because the file just has been written indeed by the sequencer itself, though the file's contents still match what the sequencer was invoked with in the beginning. Consequently, after re-reading the todo file the sequencer executes the same first instruction _again_, thus ending up in that "nothing to commit" situation. The todo list was never meant to be edited during multi-commit 'git revert' or 'cherry-pick' operations, so perform that "has the todo file been modified" check only when the sequencer was invoked as part of an interactive rebase. Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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