From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:45:51 GMT
Subject: Re: suggestion for git rebase -i
Message-ID: <20070728084550.GA13993@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707280941380.14781@racer.site>

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > a file in a pre-existing editor session.  I realize this is a small
> > nit, but how about renaming the file to "git-rebase-todo"?
> 
> Why?  This is an implementation detail, and should not concern the user.

Because if you want to setup macros or syntax highlighting specific to
editing git-rebase tempfiles, then you have to figure out somehow that
you are editing one. Using a more informative name for the tempfile
means that you can guess based on the filename.

-Peff