Re: Recovering from commit --amend in rebase --interactive

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Jun 1, 2010, 10:40 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006011136590.2352@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <4C04D78A.2090103@panasas.com>

Boaz Harrosh:

> The prints are clear enough.

The problem is that you stop reading them after a while. I've been using rebase actively for a couple of years, so I don't necessary pay much attention to what it says anymore.

And besides, if I forget to do the edits in another xterm, the help text is usually gone by the time I need to continue anyway...

> What?!? no, why. Just empty out the message at editor and save. It will 
> abort any commit and do nothing.

Oh. That's useful to know next time it happens :-)

Jan Krüger:

Show 5 quoted lines

> It might be easy to miss, but it's there, right in the editor:
>
> # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
> # with '#' will be ignored, and *an empty message aborts the commit*.
> (Emphasis added)

Indeed. There goes thinking you know what you do after having used the tools for a long time... :-)

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