On 2013-04-16 19:29, David Aguilar wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Tim Chase <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 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
Wild guess or not, using -c worked great. With the appropriate
section of the docs now in hand, I discovered that it could even be
simplified to just
git commit -c ORIG_HEAD [...]
as rebase stashes that information away for me already as "ORIG_HEAD".
Thanks!
-tkc
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