Re: rebase -i: quick/inline reword

From: Solomon Ucko <solly.ucko@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2020, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CANtMP6pSgU2WfuHVug-dj=10LNOL-mLL-5rTio=q3GjUs5MrgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzhak4a9o.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:52 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> It is probably a bad idea, as it encourages a single-liner commit
> message without any body.

You could modify the title and keep the rest of the message. You could display the modified message similarly to how `reword` does, to allow modifying the rest of the message.

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> Besides, neither is really workable, as the single line text after
> the abbreviated commit object name in the todo list is meant as an
> output only "informational" comment on each step, and there are
> plans to add more than just the squashed title paragraph there
> (cf. *1* for an example).  Even without such a future change, the
> material there may not be just the commit title, if I am reading
> the code correctly, when rebase.instructionFormat is in use.

You could have some sort of separator between the title and the rest of the info. You could disable the extra info when using this mode, if it's a command-line flag. You could require the title to be at the end to use this feature, possibly after some sort of start marker.

Solomon Ucko