Re: Ability to edit message from git rebase --interactive.

Hi,

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Jeff King wrote:

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:31:19PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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I was told on IRC that this has been discussed already not so long ago, 
and looking on the archive[1], all i seen was bikesheeding .  Here is a 
patch :-)

Unfortunately, the implementation is not the problem, but picking the best 
name.  The first letter "m" will be taken in a short while by the "merge" 
command for "rebase -i -p", so "message" is out, sadly.

But the "rephrase" command will be part of the "rebase -i -p" series when 
I will finally be able to submit it.

Also, I thought the general plan was to add such features to the
git-sequencer work which will (hopefully) eventually replace "rebase
-i". Dscho, can you give a brief update on how that is coming? Are
rebase patches worth thinking about?

IMHO rebase -i is the important part.  The user interface needs some 
serious overhaul, which I am in the slow process of doing.  The sequencer 
then has to follow suit.

As it stands, I think sequencer is not good enough yet to replace rebase 
-i (all my comments about that are public, except the heads-up I sent 
Stephan in private).

To be frank, 'rebase -i -p' support, as it is in git.git is not good 
enough at all.  That's why I was working on that, and I am close to 
finishing it.

Ciao,
Dscho