Taking a wild guess here...
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Tim Chase <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I asked this on IRC and played with some of their ideas, but struck
> out with anything satisfying. I walked through [1] with the
> following setup:
>
> git init foo
> cd foo
> touch a.txt b.txt
> git add a.txt b.txt
> git commit -m "Initial checkin"
> echo "Modify A" >> a.txt
> git commit -am "Modified A"
> echo "Modify B" >> b.txt
> git commit -am "Modified B"
> echo "Modify A2" >> a.txt
> echo "Modify B2" >> b.txt
> git commit -am "Modified B"
> git commit -am "Long-bodied commit comment about b.txt changes"
> # whoops, just wanted B
Save the commit's ID here so that we can reuse its message later:
orig_commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
> git rebase -i HEAD^^
> # change the "Added b.txt..." commit to "edit"
> git reset HEAD^ # pull the changes out of the pending commit
> git add a.txt
> git commit -m "Tweaked a.txt"
> git add b.txt
> git commit ${MAGIC_HERE}
...reuse the commit message by passing the "-c" option to "git commit":
git commit --reset-author -c $orig_commit
This will give you a chance to further edit the message in your editor.
> git rebase --continue
>
> I haven't been able to figure out a good way to keep the "long-bodied
> commit comment" for the final commit where the ${MAGIC_HERE} is. Is
> there a right/easy way to go about pulling in the commit-message from
> the commit the rebase is transplanting?
This is pretty much what the commands above do.
They save the commit ID so that we can reuse the message later.
HTH,
--
David
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