From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Reordering lines in "git-rebase -i" task sheet Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:11:43 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <7vlk8q7hzg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071122192556.GA14662@old.davidb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Brown X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 22 23:12:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IvKHG-0007Ho-M2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:12:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753070AbXKVWLt (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:11:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753032AbXKVWLt (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:11:49 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:38068 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753003AbXKVWLt (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:11:49 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2007 22:11:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO openvpn-client) [138.251.11.103] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 22 Nov 2007 23:11:47 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18XlF8XHuUXSHZ7ADMdd+8mpFJY/MY/nq6YfmzgQS dEfi5fIE4yvb+K X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20071122192556.GA14662@old.davidb.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:21:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > That is the reason why git commit leaves the first line empty in its > > initial template. It is to allow the user to immediately start > > typing. > > Unless of course your editor tries to be "helpful" and remember what > line you were on previously in a file. IMHO this objection is irrelevant, since these helpful editors do not have any preference as to where the help text should be. Hth, Dscho