On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Would it be possible to open the editor with the supplied text when >> there's no commit? The text after <rev> must be oneline only.. > > I actually want to avoid that because my main use case is fire-and-forget, > i.e. I want to edit only the todo list and then (barring any merge > conflicts) I do not want to edit anything anymore. > Agreed, for the case where we copy a commit message, I do not want the editor either. > But I guess we could special-case the thing where `-` is specified as > "merge commit message provider" and an empty oneline is provided? > It's for when there is a new merge, for when we are creating a new one using "-", yes. >> It's difficult to reword merges because of the nature of rebase >> interactive, you can't just re-run the rebase command and use >> "reword". >> >> I suppose you could cheat by putting in an "edit" command that let you >> create an empty commit with a message... > > Or you could "cheat" by adding `exec git commit --amend`... > > Seriously again, I have no good idea how to provide an equivalent to the > `reword` verb that would work on merge commits... > Given that there is a work around, and I doubt it's that common, I'm not sure we need one, plus i have no idea what verb to use.... We could allow reword on its own to simply reword the top commit? That being said, since there's a simple-ish workaruond using "stop", or "exec git commit --amend" I don't see this as being important enough to worry about now. Thanks, Jake
