Re: [RFC,PATCH] git-amend -- darcs like amend-record for git

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2010, 09:16 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1003010116p443985b3ib71f229a1978f831@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1267107365-2973-1-git-send-email-kirr@mns.spb.ru>

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> wrote:

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> Ever wanted to type `git commit --amend HEAD~3` ? But had to fall back to commit
> and interactive rebase with fixup? And was tired by a lot of typing? And also
> rebase works only on clean worktree, so stash save and stash pop have to be
> used...
>
> Forget it.
>
> Now one can just do `git add ...` to prepare index, and then
> `git amend <commit>` to merge that changes from index into <commit>.

this may be a little late, but I'd like to indicate my interest in such a feature.

A suggestion: I believe this could be better advertised as git-rebase --interactive --edit. After all, you do replay the intervening commits (which is closer to git-rebase than git-commit).

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan