From: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:01:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/4] commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash
Message-ID: <AANLkTinKCuFRYf4Bu856nhtfA3gPY5FZpQ6jcik=4=GC@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1285100703-49087-2-git-send-email-patnotz@gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com> wrote:
> This option makes it convenient to construct commit messages for use
> with 'rebase --autosquash'.  The resulting commit message will be
> "fixup! ..." where "..." is the subject line of the specified commit
> message.
>
> Example usage:
>  $ git commit --fixup HEAD~2
>
> Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-commit.txt |   13 +++++++++----
>  builtin/commit.c             |   23 +++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> index 42fb1f5..3367f8f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> @@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  --------
>  [verse]
>  'git commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend] [--dry-run]
> -          [(-c | -C) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author]
> -          [--allow-empty] [--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>]
> -          [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--]
> -          [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
> +          [(-c | -C | --fixup) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>]
> +          [--reset-author] [--allow-empty] [--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify]
> +          [-e] [--author=<author>] [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>]
> +          [--status | --no-status] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
>
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ OPTIONS
>        Like '-C', but with '-c' the editor is invoked, so that
>        the user can further edit the commit message.
>
> +--fixup=<commit>::
> +       Construct a commit message for use with `rebase --autosquash`.
> +       The commit message will be the subject line from the specified
> +       commit with a prefix of "fixup! ".
> +

I should add links to the git-rebase man page here.