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Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] git-rebase -i: Add key word "drop" to remove a commit

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
May 27, 2015, 23:42 UTC
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From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
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> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> I find it weird to write
>>
>> noop <sha1> <title>
>
> True, but then it can be spelled
>
>    # <sha1> <title>
>
> too, so do we still want 'drop'?  Unless we have a strong reason to
> believe migrants from Hg cannot be (re)trained, personally, I'd feel
> that we do not need this 'drop' thing.
>

To me, the addition of "drop" would be a better completion of the list of action verbs for 'normal' users.

Training/Retraining users to use atypical techniques is a never ending task, so making drop a synonym for the existing noop appeals to my experience of users (of all sorts of tools, including personal experience ;-).

-- Philip

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Message 24 of 24 in “git-rebase -i: Add key word "drop" to remove a commit”
  1. 1/2 git-rebase -i: Add key word "drop" to remove a commitGalan Rémi, May 26, 2015
  2. 2/2 git rebase -i: Warn removed or dupplicated commitsGalan Rémi, May 26, 2015
  3. Eric SunshineMay 26, 2015
  4. Remi Galan AlfonsoMay 27, 2015
  5. Eric SunshineMay 27, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2015
  7. Remi Galan AlfonsoMay 28, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2015
  9. Remi Galan AlfonsoMay 27, 2015
  10. Stephen KellyMay 27, 2015
  11. Matthieu MoyMay 27, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2015
  13. Eric SunshineMay 26, 2015
  14. Johannes SchindelinMay 27, 2015
  15. Remi Galan AlfonsoMay 27, 2015
  16. Matthieu MoyMay 27, 2015
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2015
  18. Matthieu MoyMay 27, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2015
  20. Stefan BellerMay 27, 2015
  21. Johannes SchindelinMay 28, 2015
  22. Stefan BellerMay 28, 2015
  23. Matthieu MoyMay 28, 2015
  24. Philip OakleyMay 27, 2015

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