Hi, On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Björn Gustavsson wrote: > 2009/10/4 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>: > > I thought that we had a discussion about this and that the consensus was > > that "amend" would be misleading. Maybe you can find that thread in > > GMane? > > I found this thread from January 2009: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/105738 > > Having read the thread, I agree that "amend" would be misleading. > > There were several suggestions for alternate command names > in that thread, for example: > > "msg", "msgedit", "message", "reword", "rephrase" > > It think that "msgedit" was suggested by several people. ("editmsg" > was also suggested, but it is not possible as the abbreviation "e" would > become ambiguous.) > > Would the patch have a chance to be accepted if I renamed > the new command to "msgedit"? My objection was that the "upcoming" (yeah, Sverre, I am imitating Duke Nukem Forever here) "merge" command would clash with "msgedit", which was why I suggested "rephrase" (but would be okay with "reword" Junio mentions). AFAIR the naming was the only objection. Ciao, Dscho