Re: [PATCH] Teach 'rebase -i' the command "amend"

[Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>]

Heya,

2009/10/5 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> If the rebase insn sheet were richer, and had a way to show the full
> message, like this:

But that's not what rebase -i's insn sheet is about is it?  It's not
"rewrite my commits so that they are the way I want them", it's about
"change the order of my commits"/squash some/drop some. The polishing
of the commits itself is done after finishing the insn sheet.

> I do not see why we shouldn't allow people to edit any part of the above
> to reword.

Because it then becomes very hard to do any actual reordering. I'm not
saying it's a bad idea, just that it's a bad idea to do it in 'git
rebase -i', conceptually. Although what you suggest would be useful to
me, I just think it should be a different command, git rewrite perhaps
:P. Definitely not "git rebase -i --rewrite-message" though, becaue it
is not at all about rebasing anymore.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier