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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ability to edit message from git rebase --interactive.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:50:07 -0500
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 13:21, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> I still think this feature to edit the message in git rebase -i is really
>>> usefull. =A0So 'm' is really taken, what about 'r' for 'rephrase'?
>>>
>>> or maybe 'rephrase' is something different?
>>
>> How about 'a' for an immediate [a]mend?
>
> git commit --amend lets you amend the modifications in addition to the
> message, so I think it would be too ambiguous.

How about edit-message|edit-m|em ?

Also, I still like the idea of being able to write:

    git commit --amend HEAD~5 HEAD^

and then have the rebase setup and started for me.

How about:

    git commit --amend-message ...

for just the commit message?

P.S.

Sorry for the duplicate, Johannes.