Re: rebase -i: quick/inline reword
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- May 7, 2020, 04:52 UTC
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Solomon Ucko <solly.ucko@gmail.com> writes:
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> ... It would be much easier > if there were a mode where any changes to the commit titles in the list > modified the commits' titles. Maybe `git rebase -i --reword`? > > Any thoughts, suggestions, questions, etc.?
It is probably a bad idea, as it encourages a single-liner commit message without any body.
Equally a bad idea, but perhaps slightly less evil, would be to add a new verb that can be used to replace "pick" with, say, "retitle", and teach the sequencing machinery to pay attention to the updated title line only in that case.
Besides, neither is really workable, as the single line text after the abbreviated commit object name in the todo list is meant as an output only "informational" comment on each step, and there are plans to add more than just the squashed title paragraph there (cf. *1* for an example). Even without such a future change, the material there may not be just the commit title, if I am reading the code correctly, when rebase.instructionFormat is in use.
[Reference]
*1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.757.v3.git.git.1586573067.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/