sequencer: beautify subject of reverts of reverts
Instead of generating a silly-looking `Revert "Revert "foo""`, make it
a more humane `Reapply "foo"`.
This is done for two reasons:
- To cover the actually common case of just a double revert.
- To encourage people to rewrite summaries of recursive reverts by
setting an example (a subsequent commit will also do this explicitly
in the documentation).
To achieve these goals, the mechanism does not need to be particularly
sophisticated. Therefore, more complicated alternatives which would
"compress more efficiently" have not been implemented.
Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 5e0c15a..7dc13fd 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -2249,6 +2249,8 @@ static int do_pick_commit(struct repository *r,
*/
if (command == TODO_REVERT) {
+ const char *orig_subject;
+
base = commit;
base_label = msg.label;
next = parent;
@@ -2256,6 +2258,15 @@ static int do_pick_commit(struct repository *r,
if (opts->commit_use_reference) {
strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf,
"# *** SAY WHY WE ARE REVERTING ON THE TITLE LINE ***");
+ } else if (skip_prefix(msg.subject, "Revert \"", &orig_subject) &&
+ /*
+ * We don't touch pre-existing repeated reverts, because
+ * theoretically these can be nested arbitrarily deeply,
+ * thus requiring excessive complexity to deal with.
+ */
+ !starts_with(orig_subject, "Revert \"")) {
+ strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, "Reapply \"");
+ strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, orig_subject);
} else {
strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, "Revert \"");
strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, msg.subject);
