From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:01:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git-commit-script, was Re: "git revert" (Re: pci_update_resource() getting called on sparc64)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508081458550.3258@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhde02jab.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Sure, what's the alternative spelling for the current -m,
> though?  Would -c be OK for commit?

How about using long names?

	git commit --reuse-message <sha1>

looks a lot more intuitively understandable to me than something like "-c"

Most of us don't use 300bps terminals any more, so typing a few extra 
characters is probably ok.

Now, to make things be backwards-compatible, it should be easy enough to 
notice

   "Oh, the argument to '-m' is just a single SHA1, let's see if it's a
    commit, and turn '-m' into '--reuse-message' automatically"

If anybody cares. Does cogito already use "-m"?

		Linus