Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Earlier, I thought to implement the UI of amend! commit as : > "git commit --fixup=a/amend:<commit>" > > So users can either use 'a' as abbreviation or 'amend'. But I want to once > confirm if I got this right ? As I am doubtful about, what does allowing to > accept any prefix of "amend" and "reword" means ? It means that all of these do the same thing ... git commit --fixup=amend:<commit> git commit --fixup=amen:<commit> git commit --fixup=ame:<commit> git commit --fixup=am:<commit> git commit --fixup=a:<commit> ... until somebody more brilliant than either of us comes along and invents another operation that sits next to 'amend' and 'reword', say, 'annoy'. At that point, git commit --fixup=a:<commit> no longer uniquely identifies a choice among three ('amend', 'annoy', or 'reword') and you'd give an error message, but git commit --fixup=am:<commit> will keep working as an abbreviation for "amend".