Rebase/cherry-picking idea

In using "git-rebase --interactive" to re-order commits you occasionally get conflicts and will see a message like this:

	When commiting, use the option '-c %s' to retain authorship and message

I was thinking that it might be nice to stash away this commit id somewhere in GIT_DIR so that the user didn't have to explicitly remember it, and add a new switch to git-commit that could be used to automatically use that stashed commit id, something like:

	git commit --retain

Although I most often see this kind of message in interactive rebasing, the message is generated in builtin-revert.c when cherry- picking, so you can also see it in any other situation where you're cherry picking and there's a conflict.

What do people think? Would this be a nice usability improvement? Or is it adding clutter?

Cheers, Wincent