rebase -i: use a better reflog message

Now that the "checkout" invoked internally from "rebase -i" knows to
honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION, we can start to use it to write a better
reflog message when "rebase anotherbranch", "rebase --onto branch",
etc. internally checks out the new fork point.  We will write:

  rebase -i: checkout master

instead of the old

  rebase -i

As all the calls git-rebase--interactive make to underlying git
commands that leave reflog messages are preceded by the internal
comment_for_reflog helper function, which uses the original value of
the GIT_REFLOG_ACTION variable it saw when it first started, the new
assignments to GIT_REFLOG_ACTION actively contaminate the value of
the variable, knowing that it will be reset to a sane value before
it is used again.  This does not generally hold true but it should
suffice for now.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 5822b2c59..a97552935 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -837,8 +837,11 @@ comment_for_reflog start
 
 if test ! -z "$switch_to"
 then
+	GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $switch_to"
 	output git checkout "$switch_to" -- ||
-		die "Could not checkout $switch_to"
+	die "Could not checkout $switch_to"
+
+	comment_for_reflog start
 fi
 
 orig_head=$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD) || die "No HEAD?"
@@ -980,6 +983,7 @@ has_action "$todo" ||
 
 test -d "$rewritten" || test -n "$force_rebase" || skip_unnecessary_picks
 
+GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $onto_name"
 output git checkout $onto || die_abort "could not detach HEAD"
 git update-ref ORIG_HEAD $orig_head
 do_rest