From: Patrick Steinhardt Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:37:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 7/7] builtin/history: implement "reword" subcommand Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 01:01:11PM -0500, D. Ben Knoble wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 5:10 AM Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > > > Implement a new "reword" subcommand for git-history(1). This subcommand > > is similar to the user performing an interactive rebase with a single > > commit changed to use the "reword" instruction. > > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-history.adoc b/Documentation/git-history.adoc > > index 5a9d931efc..4eea317e5c 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/git-history.adoc > > +++ b/Documentation/git-history.adoc > > @@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ Overall, linkgit:git-history[1] aims to provide a more opinionated way to modify > > your commit history that is simpler to use compared to linkgit:git-rebase[1] in > > general. > > > > -If you want to reapply a range of commits onto a different base, or interactive > > -rebases if you want to edit a range of commits. > > +Use linkgit:git-rebase[1] if you want to reapply a range of commits onto a > > +different base, or interactive rebases if you want to edit a range of commits > > +at once. > > > > LIMITATIONS > > ----------- > > Ah, looks like this commit fixed one of my befuddlements during the range-diff. > Bad history edit? :) Huh, something's weird here indeed, the range-diff and the actual changes do not match. I use b4 though, so this isn't an issue that was caused by weird manual munging of patches. Hum. Well, I'll not go down this rabbit hole today :) Thanks for your review! Patrick