clean up fixup code

reduce log clutter
add log dumping with spew

test/lots_of_commits.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# this script makes a repo with lots of commits
+
+# call this command from the test directory:
+# ./lots_of_commits.sh; cd testrepo; gg; cd ..
+
+# -e means exit if something fails
+# -x means print out simple commands before running them
+set -ex
+
+reponame="testrepo"
+
+rm -rf ${reponame}
+mkdir ${reponame}
+cd ${reponame}
+
+git init
+
+i=2
+end=100
+while [ $i -le $end ]; do
+    echo "file${i}" > file${i}
+    git add file${i}
+    git commit -m file${i}
+
+    i=$(($i+1))
+done

test/merge_conflict.sh

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # on the master branch and if we try and merge master we get a merge conflict
 
 # call this command from the test directory:
-# ./generate_basic_repo.sh; cd testrepo; gg; cd ..
+# ./merge_conflict.sh; cd testrepo; gg; cd ..
 
 # -e means exit if something fails
 # -x means print out simple commands before running them