From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:58:49 GMT
Subject: Re: suggestion for git rebase -i
Message-ID: <20070728085849.GB13993@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070728084550.GA13993@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:45:51AM -0400, Jeff King 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.

Re-reading his original message, I actually don't think this is what he
wanted it for. But I think it's reasonable to give the tempfile a
meaningful name anyway for this reason.

-Peff