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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

>> Actually, that should be: `git reset --soft HEAD^; git commit --amend`.
>
> "git rebase --root" does not seem a bad idea though.

The lack of this did't annoy me enough (one woudln't have to deal with
root commits too often) so I wouldn't bother implementing it myself, but
"git rebase --root" especially with "-i" would be a nice addition.

i.e. well written and explained patches welcome.