The flag will allow the user to edit the todo file while they're in the middle of an interactive rebase. It simply invoke the editor and do nothing else. More discussions here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/205133/focus=205182 Andrew Wong (3): rebase -i: Refactor help messages for todo file rebase -i: Teach "--edit-todo" action rebase -i: Add tests for "--edit-todo" Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 5 ++++- git-rebase--interactive.sh | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- git-rebase.sh | 14 +++++++++++++ t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh | 16 +++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.318.g08bf5ad.dirty -- 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