Same as they are informed of what the different commands do and that they can remove commits. --- Hi, I was using git rebase -i for some time now and never occured to me I could reorder the commit lines to affect the order the commits are applied, learnt that recently from a git tutorial, I must admit I have now checked the man page and it's well explained, but remarking that on the user-input screen is an useful addition imo. git-rebase--interactive.sh | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index 5812222..acf1f5c 100644 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -846,6 +846,8 @@ cat >> "$todo" << EOF # f, fixup = like "squash", but discard this commit's log message # x, exec = run command (the rest of the line) using shell # +# You can re-order the commit lines to affect the order on which +# the commits will be applied. # If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST. # However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted. # -- 1.7.7.6 -- 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