Quoting Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> > Heya, > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:35, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> $ bash >> $ echo "!fixup commit" >> bash: !fixup: event not found >> $ echo "fixup! commit" >> fixup! commit > > Speaking of which, must we use that annoying bang? I hate how bash > gets in my way when I try to write a commit message with a a bang in > it, I'd much rather use a different character that is not in risk of > being mistreated by my shell. (Although it seems that bash does do TRT > in the 'fixup!' case.) > > -- > Cheers, > > Sverre Rabbelier There was a strong objection (I think from Johanes) against not using 'unusual' letters during the initial round back in June 2009. Even when explicitly giving '--auto-squash' from the command line, there can be commits with confusing titles like "fixup the ancient bug in cat-file" in addition to the ones you wanted to mark with the "fixup!" marker. -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html