Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: use same commit's message and date with f -C

> 
> I have never used the "amend!" autosquash feature and I was not aware of
> it until I stepped through the code in sequencer.c to implement my
> proposed change. I think the `git commit --amend` manual explains quite
> nicely why you could want to keep the author of one commit and the
> message of another.
> 
> Before discovering "f -C" to achieve the "fixdown" behavior, as Hannes
> describes, I used "x f" to invoke my own single-letter shell script to
> achieve the behavior I wanted, and I guess I am fine with going back to
> that for the cases where I want to preserve author dates (which, to be
> fair, is often not that important to me).