Re: How to implement the "amend!" commit ?

From: Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2021, 03:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPSFM5cEnex1xaBy5ia_xNFDNzt5_Y=W-6TB9d9yW_AiPAKxDg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7dofxnru.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Hi Junio and Phillip,

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 02:02, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Note that we intend to allow
> > accept any prefix of "amend" and "reword" so --fixup=a:<commit> would
> > work.
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> "a" and "r" may happen to be unique but we would not want to be
> limited to these two forever---future developers are allowed to
> invent other clever variants.  So let's say "accept unique prefix as
> abbreviation for these operating mode words like 'amend' and 'reword'"
>

Earlier, I thought to implement the UI of amend! commit as : "git commit --fixup=a/amend:<commit>"

So users can either use 'a' as abbreviation or 'amend'. But I want to once confirm if I got this right ? As I am doubtful about, what does allowing to accept any prefix of "amend" and "reword" means ?

Thanks and Regards, Charvi