From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:25:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Reordering lines in "git-rebase -i" task sheet
Message-ID: <20071122192556.GA14662@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vlk8q7hzg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:21:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>That is the reason why git commit leaves the first line empty in
>its initial template.  It is to allow the user to immediately
>start typing.

Unless of course your editor tries to be "helpful" and remember what line
you were on previously in a file.

David