Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Support --verbose in git history

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

On 07/11/2026 19:49, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
>>
> 
> Anyway, my point is, there's a lot of possible meanings for "verbose",

That's a good point

> so maybe we could use "--commit-verbose" (blech), "--diff-in-editor",
> or some other thing that smarter folks than I will come up with which
> clearly signals what we're about?

Off the top of my head --show-diff, though I'm not sure that's any 
better than your suggestions

>> Other git history subcommands like split, squash and fixup could also
>> support --verbose under some circumstances (without --no-edit for fixup
>> or only with --reedit-message for fixup)

That, and supporting "commit.verbose" is a good idea

Thanks

Phillip

>> I would be happy to work start with landing support for --verbose for
>> git history reword, ideally with it also supporting the "commit.verbose"
>> configuration option. Further patches could then add support for other
>> subcommands where it makes sense.
>>
>> Jelle van der Waa (2):
>>    history: drop redundant strbuf_stripspace()
>>    history: add --verbose option for reword
>>
>>   Documentation/git-history.adoc | 11 +++-
>>   builtin/history.c              | 61 ++++++++++++++++++---
>>   t/t3451-history-reword.sh      | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   3 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.56.0
> 
> Thanks for an interesting idea.
>