From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 12:17:18 GMT
Subject: Re: rebase -i: quick/inline reword
Message-ID: <87zhakgcs1.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20200507114630.GC3027470@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:52:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Solomon Ucko <solly.ucko@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > ... It would be much easier
>> > if there were a mode where any changes to the commit titles in the list
>> > modified the commits' titles. Maybe `git rebase -i --reword`?
>> >
>> > Any thoughts, suggestions, questions, etc.?
>> 
>> It is probably a bad idea, as it encourages a single-liner commit
>> message without any body.
>
> There is another legitimate use (or at least one I have wished for many
> times): when manipulating the todo list in my editor to choose patches
> for editing, I sometimes notice a typo in the title and correct it. And
> of course that does no good, and I get annoyed. You'd think I would have
> learned after all these years, but I continue to make the same mistake.
> ;)
>
> I've often wished that changes there would be quietly persisted.

That's exactly my case as well.

-- Sergey