Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: convert revert to squash on autosquash

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:42:12 +0200

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> 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.

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Matthieu Moy
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