sequencer: offer helpful advice when a command was rescheduled

dscho · gitster · commit cb5206eab196 · 2018-04-26T12:28:42.000+09:00
Previously, we did that just magically, and potentially left some users
quite puzzled. Let's err on the safe side instead, telling the user what
is happening, and how they are supposed to continue.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
@@ -2561,6 +2561,17 @@ static const char *reflog_message(struct replay_opts *opts,
 	return buf.buf;
 }
 
+static const char rescheduled_advice[] =
+N_("Could not execute the todo command\n"
+"\n"
+"    %.*s"
+"\n"
+"It has been rescheduled; To edit the command before continuing, please\n"
+"edit the todo list first:\n"
+"\n"
+"    git rebase --edit-todo\n"
+"    git rebase --continue\n");
+
 static int pick_commits(struct todo_list *todo_list, struct replay_opts *opts)
 {
 	int res = 0;
@@ -2606,6 +2617,11 @@ static int pick_commits(struct todo_list *todo_list, struct replay_opts *opts)
 					opts, is_final_fixup(todo_list));
 			if (is_rebase_i(opts) && res < 0) {
 				/* Reschedule */
+				advise(_(rescheduled_advice),
+				       get_item_line_length(todo_list,
+							    todo_list->current),
+				       get_item_line(todo_list,
+						     todo_list->current));
 				todo_list->current--;
 				if (save_todo(todo_list, opts))
 					return -1;
