From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:59:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: introduce allow-inline-reword option
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSzgaxMxfhShRHtztRH72rgA21-Vw1SrFwkiFyrP7De7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 6:43 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Théo Maillart <tmaillart@gmail.com> writes:
> > So, if I understand your suggestion correctly, we can say that,
> > most of the logic is implemented in this patch, but I should move
> > the "inline" logic from the "reword" to a new action "retitle".
>
> Yeah, I was hoping that most of the logic has already been written,
> except that it is likely you just ignored the original log message
> and overwrote it with the single line you got, but now you need to
> read the original and replace only the title (the "paragraph" before
> the first blank line), which you may not have yet.

Michael Haggerty had made a more generalized proposal[1] some time
back which might or might not be relevant here. The notion of being
able to edit the title of commit came up in the ensuing discussion, as
well.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/530DA00E.4090402@alum.mit.edu/