From: Andrew Wong Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:49:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rebase -i: Teach "--edit-todo" action Message-ID: <5055F51B.9070601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v1ui2zccc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On 09/16/12 02:54, Junio C Hamano wrote: > In any case, what information are you discarding and then replacing > with the standard boilerplate? It's to strip out the comment that says: # However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted. As there's no way reliable way to know where that line is and remove it, the only way I can think of is to remove all the comments, and append the help messages again.