Re: [PATCH 2/6] commit: add amend suboption to --fixup to create amend! commit

[Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 02:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> >> ...Thanks, for pointing this out. Also, in the above method for
> >> alnum I think we can initialize an array of alnum[] instead of
> >> alphas[]. Or otherwise I was thinking to instead check:
> >>            if (!isalnum(*c) && *c == ':')
> >
> > Sure a loop is fine, or alnum[] is fine, or just alpha[] is OK, I
> > would think.  Do you foresee you'd need --fixup=chomp124:<commit>?
> > I somehow doubt it.
>
> Having said that, we may regret if we did not include some
> punctuation to allow for a multi-word keyword.  IOW, "alpha plus
> dash" might be a reasonable minimum.
>
> But what keyword --fixup=<keyword>:<commit> can take is entirely
> under our control, so it is not all that unreasonable if we just
> forced our developers some discipline to pick a single-word keyword
> for any of their future enhancements.  It's not like we are opening
> up extensibility to the end-users, who may complain that the way
> they can spell their new <keyword> is too limited.  So if we already
> have alpha[] and/or a helper function that does strspn(alpha) that
> we can reuse elsewhere, I do not think it is worth to try supporting
> punctuation.
>

Oh, yes punctuation is another point. Then for now maybe we can just make the
helper function to check for alpha[] only.

Thanks and Regards,
Charvi