My first task in the project is to Implement the reword! commit in the git interactive rebase. This would be an alternative to the fixup! and squash! commit which would allow the user to edit the commit (either commit message or content or both) when they create a reword! commit rather than when they rebase. And for the coming weeks I will be working on this task.

Work done

I started with the following:

• Setting up remote repo to push all my changes here.
• Completed the My first contribution tutorial which made me more clear about the source code and also referred here for more pointers to get started .
• Setting up this website hosted on github, where I will weekly post my updates on the project.

Also, Phillip told me about the sanitizers. I enabled it in my config.mak file and learned about it, so that while building the git repo we can easily detect the address and memory leaks. In addition to this I also enable the warnings and debugging information and my config.mak looks like below :

DEVELOPER = 1
CFLAGS = -ggdb3
SANITIZE = address,leak

Next I spent some time in learning about the advanced linux commands including pipes in linux, many other and about the git internals from here. Also, I referred to Pro Git to get more understanding of the git Plumbing and Porcelain commands.

Then, after discussing with Christian and Phillip regarding the project and related doubts. Firstly I started with, to have an overview of the Phillip’s patches which is the starting point of my task as it implements the similar amend! commit.

Then I started learning about the test scripts in the patches and debugged it. All test scripts in the git give the TAP output and there are a set of helper functions defined in the test harness library (t/test-lib.sh) which are used to write the test scripts . Also, I referred to t/README where everything regarding the test scripts are very well documented.

Points to consider:

• Use test_pause in test scripts to look into the trash directory(which stores temporary data using testing) .
• Pass –verbose(or -v) to see the output if any , –run(or -r) to run the selective tests , -i to exit upon first test fail
• Pass –debug(-d), to run the command passed with test_debug in the test script.

Also, I learned about the t/lib-rebase.sh where more helper functions are defined, which are used in writing the tests for the interactive rebase and learned about the set_fake_editor() function for setting up the fake editor while writing the test scripts.

Next Plans

I will continue to work on test script, complete tests mentioned in the patches and as guided by Phillip, will look into the code for changing new amend command in the todo list to using fixup -C instead.

Thanks.