Re: rebase -i reword converts to pick on pre-commit non-zero exit

[Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>]

On 2/1/2012 3:27 PM, Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
> When interactive rebase does the reword command it runs the pre-commit hook
> for that commit (a).  If the pre-commit hook gives a non-zero exit then
> interactive rebase picks commit (a) and continues to the next commit (b) in
> the rebase-to-do-list.  Instead of picking commit (a) when the pre-commit
> hook exits non-zero on the reword command, shouldn't interactive rebase
> learn to edit commit (a) and tell the user that because the pre-commit hook
> exited non-zero they need to either remedy the pre-commit hook violations
> and run git commit --amend or run git commit --amend --no-verify to bypass
> the pre-commit hook?  Otherwise, you have to run another rebase after the
> rejected rewords and edit those commits to accomplish the rewords.
>
git 1.7.1

v/r,
neal