From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:44:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add a "fix" command to "rebase --interactive"
Message-ID: <7vws12r5v2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqfx7qocwl.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>
>>> If the idea of a "fix" command is acceptable, then I would like to
>>> implement a further convenience: if a group of commits to be folded
>>> together includes *only* "fix" commits, then the first log message
>>> should be used without even opening an editor.  But I would like to
>>> get a reaction to the "fix" command in general before doing so.
>>
>> I'd say that would make a useful command ("fix") even more useful, being
>> just the right counterpart to "reword" for trivial commit message fixes.
>
> +1 for fix, and +1 for the "don't even launch the editor" too.

I like it, too.  Also I vaguely recall that there was a series that died
that would have allowed you to give hints to help this behaviour at the
time you make "fix-up" commits; we may want to resurrect it on top of this
feature.