Re: Squashing commits with git rebase -i may miscount commits in commit message

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, Brandon Tolsch wrote:

git --version: 2.11.0

When using git rebase -i to squash a series of commits that includes
more than 10 commits, the generated commit message you are given to
edit counts the old messages incorrectly.  It will say the total
number of commits is (actual % 10) (if they were 0-based) and it will
also count the commits as (actual % 10).

For example, 15, 25, 35, etc. commits:
# This is a combination of 5 commits.
# This is the 1st commit message:
msg

# This is the commit message #2:
...
...
# This is commit message #10:
msg

# This is commit message #1:
...

# This is commit message #5:
msg

While not a big issue, it did make me double check what I was doing
when I saw "a combination of 10 commits" instead of 20 in the commit
message.

Just for the record: I verified that the rebase--helper based interactive
rebase (which is already in Git for Windows since v2.10.0) does *not* have
this bug.

Maybe a point in favor rebase--helper...

Ciao,
Johannes