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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Seth Falcon <sfalcon@fhcrc.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for git rebase -i
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:45:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070728084550.GA13993@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707280941380.14781@racer.site>

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > a file in a pre-existing editor session.  I realize this is a small
> > nit, but how about renaming the file to "git-rebase-todo"?
> 
> Why?  This is an implementation detail, and should not concern the user.

Because if you want to setup macros or syntax highlighting specific to
editing git-rebase tempfiles, then you have to figure out somehow that
you are editing one. Using a more informative name for the tempfile
means that you can guess based on the filename.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-28  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-28  4:58 suggestion for git rebase -i Seth Falcon
2007-07-28  8:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-28  8:45   ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-07-28  8:58     ` Jeff King
2007-07-28 15:52   ` Seth Falcon
2007-07-28 20:09     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-28 23:11       ` Seth Falcon

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