[PATCH] rebase -i: add config to abbreviate command name

[Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>]

Add the 'rebase.abbrevCmd' boolean config option to allow
the user to abbreviate the default command name while editing
the 'git-rebase-todo' file.

Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
---
Notes:

 *  This allows the lines to remain aligned when using single
    letter commands.

 Documentation/config.txt     | 3 +++
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 3 +++
 git-rebase--interactive.sh   | 8 ++++++--
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 475e874d5155..59b64832aeb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2614,6 +2614,9 @@ rebase.instructionFormat::
 	the instruction list during an interactive rebase.  The format will automatically
 	have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
 
+rebase.abbrevCmd::
+	If set to true, abbreviate command name in interactive mode.
+
 receive.advertiseAtomic::
 	By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push
 	capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 67d48e688315..0c423d903625 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ rebase.missingCommitsCheck::
 rebase.instructionFormat::
 	Custom commit list format to use during an `--interactive` rebase.
 
+rebase.abbrevCmd::
+	If set to true, abbreviate command name in interactive mode.
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 --onto <newbase>::
diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 2c9c0165b5ab..9f3e82b79615 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -1210,6 +1210,10 @@ else
 	revisions=$onto...$orig_head
 	shortrevisions=$shorthead
 fi
+
+rebasecmd=pick
+test "$(git config --bool --get rebase.abbrevCmd)" = true && rebasecmd=p
+
 format=$(git config --get rebase.instructionFormat)
 # the 'rev-list .. | sed' requires %m to parse; the instruction requires %H to parse
 git rev-list $merges_option --format="%m%H ${format:-%s}" \
@@ -1228,7 +1232,7 @@ do
 
 	if test t != "$preserve_merges"
 	then
-		printf '%s\n' "${comment_out}pick $sha1 $rest" >>"$todo"
+		printf '%s\n' "${comment_out}${rebasecmd} $sha1 $rest" >>"$todo"
 	else
 		if test -z "$rebase_root"
 		then
@@ -1246,7 +1250,7 @@ do
 		if test f = "$preserve"
 		then
 			touch "$rewritten"/$sha1
-			printf '%s\n' "${comment_out}pick $sha1 $rest" >>"$todo"
+			printf '%s\n' "${comment_out}${rebasecmd} $sha1 $rest" >>"$todo"
 		fi
 	fi
 done
-- 
2.9.3