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

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2021, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID: <YACAHdDEMIgvQruK@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <99b40665-45dd-6c4d-d46a-56c7dbf89568@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:39:50AM +0000, Phillip Wood wrote:

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> > Secondly, As an alternative to above, we can use `--fixup=<commit>
> > --amend` and `--fixup=<commit> --reword`.
>
> This is not backwards compatible. At the moment If you create a fixup with
> `git commit --fixup=aaa` and then realize it should refer to commit bbb
> instead you can fix it with `git commit --amend --fixup=bbb`. That would no
> longer be possible.

Too bad. I felt that this was the most ergonomic idea put forwards, but I also thought that we died with '--amend --fixup=xxx'. Its current behavior does make sense to me, but it's too bad that we can't use it for this new purpose.

I suppose the first option (the '--fixup=reword:xxx' one really is the only one that can be implemented while preserving backwards compatibility, so I think we have no choice but to go with that one.)

Thanks, Taylor