Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] rebase -i: clarify and fix 'fixup -c' rebase-todo help

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:13 AM Charvi Mendiratta [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The goal is good, but I am not sure if this "the commit" -> "this commit"
is an effective enough way to fix the issue.  Here is my attempt but
I do not think it is not 10x better to be worth replacing yours X-<.

    use only the log message of the "fixup" commit, discarding the
    message from the previous commit.  While "-C" uses the message
    as-is, "-c" lets the user further edit it.

Okay, but in this patch we are also removing period and capitalization from
rebase to-do help of commands. So, maybe we can replace it like :

f, fixup [-C | -c] <commit> = like \"squash\", but discard this\n"
 "                  commit's log message; use -C to use only the\n"
 "                  log message of the "fixup" commit, discarding the\n"
 "                  message from the previous commit; while -C uses \n"
 "                  the message as-is, -c allows to further edit it\n"

Here's another more concise attempt:

    like "squash" but keep only the previous commit's log message,
    unless -C is used, in which case keep only this commit's message;
    -c is same as -C but opens editor