Re: [PATCH 0/1] sequencer: comment out the 'squash!' line

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

On 2020-01-07 at 16:15:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

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I can see the argument that this makes it a little harder for mechanical
processing across versions, but I suspect most of that looks something
like "sed -i -e '/^squash! /d' COMMIT_EDITMSG" and it probably won't be
affected.

With the left-anchoring, the search pattern will no longer find that
line if "squash!" is commented out, but people tend to be sloppy and
do not anchor the pattern would not notice the difference.  Perhaps
the downside may not be too severe?  I dunno.

Sorry, I was perhaps bad at explaining this.  In my example, it would no
longer remove that line, but the user wouldn't care, because it would be
commented out and removed automatically.  So while the code wouldn't
work, what the user wanted would be done by Git automatically.

I didn't realize that you only care about 'd' there; you're right of
course if you limit the scope of the discussion that way.

I was talking in a more general terms where "^squash!" is used as a
marker that signals the boundary between two original commits and
the processing is done possibly differently on each part.