From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:40:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase--interactive.sh: Add new command "shell"
Message-ID: <AANLkTikbrab3kmDqTCLo_tPeZWm_c-5Yux0FnVmwQE85@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101104112530.5c0e444a@chalon.bertin.fr>

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> wrote:
>>> I'm sorry if I'm missing something, but how is this different from
>>> "edit"?
>>
>>Edit cherry-picks a commit, then exits to the shell. I needed to exit
>>to the shell without cherry-picking a commit.
>

Then you do "edit" on the preceding commit instead, no?

> Indeed, before "x false" was available, I had found out that "edit"
> without an argument fails with a harmless error and indeed achieves that
> "pause" mechanism which was really missing.
>
> What about just fixing this so we can use "edit" ?  Do we really need
> another command here ?
>

Having an parameter-less "edit" would indeed be a bit more convenient.