Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add a "fix" command to "rebase --interactive"

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
> > Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> >
> >>> If the idea of a "fix" command is acceptable, then I would like to
> >>> implement a further convenience: if a group of commits to be folded
> >>> together includes *only* "fix" commits, then the first log message
> >>> should be used without even opening an editor.  But I would like to
> >>> get a reaction to the "fix" command in general before doing so.
> >>
> >> I'd say that would make a useful command ("fix") even more useful, being
> >> just the right counterpart to "reword" for trivial commit message fixes.
> >
> > +1 for fix, and +1 for the "don't even launch the editor" too.
> 
> I like it, too.  Also I vaguely recall that there was a series that died
> that would have allowed you to give hints to help this behaviour at the
> time you make "fix-up" commits; we may want to resurrect it on top of this
> feature.

I'll just repeat this exactly one more time: it is not always possible to 
know whether you make a fix-up commit, and it is not always possible to be 
sure that you want to amend the next time you do a rebase.

So: Commit time is definitely a bad time to decide on the action in some 
future rebase event.

Ciao,
Dscho