Re: Git feature request: mark a commit as minor

[Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 06:38:46PM -0300, Felipe Micaroni Lalli wrote:
> A minor change (also called "cosmetic") usually is a typo fix, doc
> improvement, a little code refactoring that don't change the behavior etc.
> 
> In Wikipedia we can mark an edition as "minor".
> 
> It would be nice to have an argument like "--minor" in git-commit to
> mark the commit as minor. Also, filter in git-log (like --hide-minor) to
> hide the minor changes. The git-log could be optimized to show minor
> commits more discreetly.

I can see your problem and implement your suggest is a solution that
would work. However since this is a common problem, git already has a
solution, that is the interactive rebase.

You can read a discussion about when to use merge and rebase here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg39091.html

This work method make the "minor" commits to go away. There shouldn't be
any minor, or "fixup" commits in your history (of course there's
exception).

Minor things should be caught in your code review process and then
fixed, rebased and the merged again.

Or do I miss a usecase here?

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