From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:11:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Reordering lines in "git-rebase -i" task sheet
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711222211020.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071122192556.GA14662@old.davidb.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, David Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:21:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > That is the reason why git commit leaves the first line empty in its 
> > initial template.  It is to allow the user to immediately start 
> > typing.
> 
> Unless of course your editor tries to be "helpful" and remember what 
> line you were on previously in a file.

IMHO this objection is irrelevant, since these helpful editors do not have 
any preference as to where the help text should be.

Hth,
Dscho