Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2021, #03; Wed, 17)

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> Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 07:44, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> * cm/rebase-i-fixup-amend-reword (2021-02-17) 6 commits
> >>  - doc/git-commit: add documentation for fixup[amend|reword] options
> >>  - t3437: use --fixup with options to create amend! commit
> >>  - t7500: add tests for --fixup[amend|reword] options
> >>  - commit: add a reword suboption to --fixup
> >>  - commit: add amend suboption to --fixup to create amend! commit
> >>  - sequencer: export subject_length()
> >>  (this branch uses cm/rebase-i and cm/rebase-i-updates.)
> >>
> >>  "git commit --fixup" learns to optionally create "amend!" and
> >>  "reword!"  commits, that use the log message in "fixup" commit
> >>  as the message of the resulting commit.
> >>
> >
> > I would like to put light on the description of the patches. I might have
> > misinterpreted the meaning of  _"reword!" commit_ as written above.
> > But I thought to explain that here both additional suboptions i.e
> > `amend` and `reword`
> > of `--fixup` introduced in the patch series creates "amend!" commit only.
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> Thanks for clarifying.  I did mix up in the description.
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> As the parameter given to the command line option is much more
> end-user facing than which insn it results in the todo list, how
> about explaining the topic like so:
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>     "git commit --fixup=<commit>", which was to tweak the changes
>     made to the contents while keeping the original log message
>     intact, learned "--fixup=(amend|reword):<commit>", that can be
>     used to tweak both the message and the contents, and only the
>     message, respectively.
>