On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Would it be possible to open the editor with the supplied text when
there's no commit?  The text after <rev> must be oneline only..

I actually want to avoid that because my main use case is fire-and-forget,
i.e. I want to edit only the todo list and then (barring any merge
conflicts) I do not want to edit anything anymore.

Agreed, for the case where we copy a commit message, I do not want the
editor either.

But I guess we could special-case the thing where `-` is specified as
"merge commit message provider" and an empty oneline is provided?

It's for when there is a new merge, for when we are creating a new one
using "-", yes.

quoted

It's difficult to reword merges because of the nature of rebase
interactive, you can't just re-run the rebase command and use
"reword".

I suppose you could cheat by putting in an "edit" command that let you
create an empty commit with a message...

Or you could "cheat" by adding `exec git commit --amend`...

Seriously again, I have no good idea how to provide an equivalent to the
`reword` verb that would work on merge commits...

Given that there is a work around, and I doubt it's that common, I'm
not sure we need one, plus i have no idea what verb to use....

We could allow reword on its own to simply reword the top commit?

That being said, since there's a simple-ish workaruond using "stop",
or "exec git commit --amend" I don't see this as being important
enough to worry about now.

Thanks,
Jake