From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:40:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Ability to edit message from git rebase --interactive.
Message-ID: <20090318004056.GB25454@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903172329480.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:31:19PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > I was told on IRC that this has been discussed already not so long ago, 
> > and looking on the archive[1], all i seen was bikesheeding .  Here is a 
> > patch :-)
> 
> Unfortunately, the implementation is not the problem, but picking the best 
> name.  The first letter "m" will be taken in a short while by the "merge" 
> command for "rebase -i -p", so "message" is out, sadly.
> 
> But the "rephrase" command will be part of the "rebase -i -p" series when 
> I will finally be able to submit it.

Also, I thought the general plan was to add such features to the
git-sequencer work which will (hopefully) eventually replace "rebase
-i". Dscho, can you give a brief update on how that is coming? Are
rebase patches worth thinking about?

-Peff