Re: Feature request: Configurable prefixes for git commit --fixup and --squash

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mar 3, 2016, 17:09 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqvb53ij45.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CALHmdRwZCb7LnQcKkdy-wNx5Ree+FcMPz2ykqVnTTq_SPDR_HA@mail.gmail.com>

Martine Lenders <mlenders@riot-os.org> writes:

>> [ Please, don't top-post on this list ]

... and as much as possible keep the "XYZ wrote:" line so that we know who wrote what ;-).

I wrote:

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>> I wish I could write commit messages like
>>
>> fixup! deadbeef: fix typo (foo -> bar)
>>
>> So that the commit message contains both the instruction for "rebase
>> --autosquash" and a quick explanation of what the commit is doing (as
>> usual commit messages).
>>
>> AFAIK, it's not possible currently but shouldn't be hard to implement.
>
> I would love that, too :-). This differs however from the original
> intent of my feature request. So maybe we finish this thread (since my
> John's proposal is 100% sufficient for me in that regard) and open a
> new one? How are the procedures for this on this list?

We don't have "procedure" for feature requests. It happens often that someone dreams aloud like I did above, and it's OK as long as "it shouldn't be hard to implement" is understood as "one day I should do it" and not "hey, you lazy devs, why don't you code that for me?" ;-).

But in general, people get more interested when a proposal has a patch attached.

I've added the idea here:

  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas

(except I already changed my mind in the syntax)

I may get some students to work on this in May, or do it myself one day.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/