Re: [PATCH v16 0/7] config commit verbose

> [+cc:git@vger.kernel.org] Because its an interesting fact to be shared
> which isn't covered elsewhere.
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sending this privately since it's probably covered elsewhere. With
>> this, if I set the option will "reword" in git rebase -i show me the
>> patch?
>>
>> If so: awesome.
>
> Yes, git rebase -i will show the diff in 'reword' if commit.verbose is
> set to true or a value greater than 0.
>
> I dug further in git-rebase--interactive.sh
> I could find appearances of "git commit --amend" but I was unable to
> find appearances of "COMMIT_EDITMSG". If COMMIT_EDITMSG was coming
> into picture, the commit.verbose could not affect it. And that is not
> the case.
>
> I guess this would be a desirable trait for most of the consumers of
> commit.verbose (like Ævar) so there would not be a need to suppress.