sequencer: don't re-read todo for revert and cherry-pick
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 commit
a47ba3c777 (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 to
a47ba3c777 the 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 of
a47ba3c777 kick 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>