rebase -i --root: let the sequencer handle even the initial part

In this developer's earlier attempt to accelerate interactive rebases by
converting large parts from Unix shell script into portable, performant
C, the --root handling was specifically excluded (to simplify the task a
little bit; it still took over a year to get that reduced set of patches
into Git proper).

This patch ties up that loose end: now only --preserve-merges uses the
slow Unix shell script implementation to perform the interactive rebase.

As the rebase--helper reports progress to stderr (unlike the scripted
interactive rebase, which reports it to stdout, of all places), we have
to adjust a couple of tests that did not expect that for `git rebase -i
--root`.

This patch fixes -- at long last! -- the really old bug reported in
6a6bc5bdc4d (add tests for rebasing root, 2013-06-06) that rebasing with
--root *always* rewrote the root commit, even if there were no changes.

The bug still persists in --preserve-merges mode, of course, but that
mode will be deprecated as soon as the new --rebase-merges mode
stabilizes, anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/t/t3421-rebase-topology-linear.sh b/t/t3421-rebase-topology-linear.sh
index e7438ad06a..99b2aac921 100755
--- a/t/t3421-rebase-topology-linear.sh
+++ b/t/t3421-rebase-topology-linear.sh
@@ -328,9 +328,9 @@ test_run_rebase () {
 		test_cmp_rev c HEAD
 	"
 }
-test_run_rebase failure ''
-test_run_rebase failure -m
-test_run_rebase failure -i
+test_run_rebase success ''
+test_run_rebase success -m
+test_run_rebase success -i
 test_run_rebase failure -p
 
 test_run_rebase () {