From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:20:36 GMT
Subject: Re: git rebase --interactive squash/squish/fold/rollup
Message-ID: <20090617182036.GA4500@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdmurfao.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 09:33:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> So I can see why a variant of "squash" that does not change (nor even ask
> for a replacement of) the commit log message from the one that is being
> amended could be useful.

How about deleting the commit message header?

pick c0ffee not to be modified commit message
pick 012345 squashme
...

=>

pick c0ffee not to be modified commit message
squash 012345
...

It requires explicit removal the unwanted commit message, avoiding any
accidents due to ambiguous keywords.