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When we came up with the "sequencer" idea, we really wanted to have kind of a plumbing equivalent of the interactive rebase. Hence the choice of words: the "todo" script, a "pick", etc. However, when it came time to implement the entire shebang, somehow this idea got lost and the sequencer was used as working horse for cherry-pick and revert instead. So as not to interfere with the interactive rebase, it even uses a separate directory to store its state. Furthermore, it also is stupidly strict about the "todo" script it accepts: while it parses commands in a way that was *designed* to be similar to the interactive rebase, it then goes on to *error out* if the commands disagree with the overall action (cherry-pick or revert). Finally, the sequencer code chose to deviate from the interactive rebase code insofar that it *reformats* the "todo" script instead of just writing the part of the parsed script that were not yet processed. This is not only unnecessary churn, but might well lose information that is valuable to the user (i.e. comments after the commands). Let's just bite the bullet and rewrite the entire parser; the code now becomes not only more elegant: it allows us to go on and teach the sequencer how to parse *true* "todo" scripts as used by the interactive rebase itself. In a way, the sequencer is about to grow up to do its older brother's job. Better. While at it, do not stop at the first problem, but list *all* of the problems. This will help the user when the sequencer will do `rebase -i`'s work by allowing to address all issues in one go rather than going back and forth until the todo list is valid. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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