From: Pieter de Bie <pieter@frim.nl>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:52:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Make the rebase edit mode really end up in an edit state
Message-ID: <19A8FAC6-A27A-4D6B-A276-02EE17F0E5F5@frim.nl>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901151325310.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>


On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> If at all, I'd introduce 'examine' as a synonym to 'edit' (might be  
> more
> intuitive).
>
> However, for the same reason (is it intuitive?) I am not fully  
> convinced
> of 'amend' either.  Because --amend _can_ mean that you change the
> diff of the commit.  Maybe 'correct', 'redact' or 'rephrase'?

I think this demonstrates that you can do a lot more with 'edit' than  
just edit.
'redact' etc also don't cover it. Perhaps just a general 'pause' or  
something?

You can then put something like 'pause  --  pause, for example to  
amend commit'
in the description part.