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From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Make the rebase edit mode really end up in an edit  state
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:58:06 +0100
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To: "Anders Melchiorsen" <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
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On Friday 16 January 2009, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
> Johan Herland wrote:
> > 	amend e8902c1 Foo
> >
> > does a "pick" followed by "commit --amend" (for editing the commit
> > message), followed by "rebase --continue".
>
> I do not think that "amend" is the best word for editing only the
> commit message. A "commit --amend" can also make a new tree, so
> reusing the word with a different meaning could be bad.
>
> As for alternatives, however, I can only come up with "copyedit", and
> that is so horrible that I will not even propose it :-)

"rephrase"?


...Johan

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