"rebase -i": support special-purpose editor to edit insn sheet

The insn sheet used by "rebase -i" is designed to be easily editable by
any text editor, but an editor that is specifically meant for it (but
is otherwise unsuitable for editing regular text files) could be useful
by allowing drag & drop reordering in a GUI environment, for example.

The GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR environment variable and/or the sequence.editor
configuration variable can be used to specify such an editor, while
allowing the usual editor to be used to edit commit log messages. As
usual, the environment variable takes precedence over the configuration
variable.

It is envisioned that other "sequencer" based tools will use the same
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberndorfer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: kumbayo

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -473,6 +473,12 @@ core.editor::
 	variable when it is set, and the environment variable
 	`GIT_EDITOR` is not set.  See linkgit:git-var[1].
 
+sequence.editor::
+	Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase insn file.
+	The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used.
+	It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable.
+	When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead.
+
 core.pager::
 	The command that git will use to paginate output.  Can
 	be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment

git-rebase--interactive.sh

@@ -161,6 +161,19 @@ do_with_author () {
 	)
 }
 
+git_sequence_editor () {
+	if test -z "$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR"
+	then
+		GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="$(git config sequence.editor)"
+		if [ -z "$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR" ]
+		then
+			GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="$(git var GIT_EDITOR)" || return $?
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	eval "$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR" '"$@"'
+}
+
 pick_one () {
 	ff=--ff
 	case "$1" in -n) sha1=$2; ff= ;; *) sha1=$1 ;; esac
@@ -832,7 +845,7 @@ has_action "$todo" ||
 	die_abort "Nothing to do"
 
 cp "$todo" "$todo".backup
-git_editor "$todo" ||
+git_sequence_editor "$todo" ||
 	die_abort "Could not execute editor"
 
 has_action "$todo" ||