From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:02:38 GMT
Subject: Rebase/cherry-picking idea
Message-ID: <109026BC-408F-451A-8F7C-A4012DD8DBDF@wincent.com>

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