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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: convert revert to squash on autosquash
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:42:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtwjcnx7v.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1604081309150.2967@virtualbox> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:13:51 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> writes:

> 	git revert -n deadbeef
> 	git commit --squash deadbeef
>
> where "deadbeef" is the placeholder for the actual commit to revert.
>
> And indeed, I use exactly this song and dance quite frequently, *iff* my
> intention is to drop a patch.
>
> A much better idea than co-opting the "Revert" commit message would be to
> introduce a sibling to --fixup and --squash that you could call
> --drop.

One could also add --fixup and --squash to "git revert", so the above
would become

    git revert --squash deadbeef

In most cases, I find it simpler to just start a rebase -i and drop the
commit from rebase's todo-list.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-08 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-07 15:12 [PATCH] rebase: convert revert to squash on autosquash Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 15:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-04-07 15:51   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-08 11:13     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-04-08 11:42       ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2016-04-08 14:09         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-08 11:43       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-09 17:17       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-08 11:39     ` Matthieu Moy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-22  6:57 Michael S. Tsirkin

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