Re: Rebase/cherry-picking idea

On Nov 26, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

In using "git-rebase --interactive" to re-order commits you  
occasionally get conflicts and will see a message like this:

	When commiting, use the option '-c %s' to retain authorship and  
message

I was thinking that it might be nice to stash away this commit id  
somewhere in GIT_DIR so that the user didn't have to explicitly  
remember it, and add a new switch to git-commit that could be used  
to automatically use that stashed commit id, something like:

	git commit --retain

Although I most often see this kind of message in interactive  
rebasing, the message is generated in builtin-revert.c when cherry- 
picking, so you can also see it in any other situation where you're  
cherry picking and there's a conflict.

What do people think? Would this be a nice usability improvement?  
Or is it adding clutter?

I'm not sure but I think this message is just some unwanted  
(misleading) noise, since when you rebase, once you solve the  
conflicts, you git-rebase --continue, you don't git-commit.

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory