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

Heya,

2009/10/5 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

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