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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>,
	Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff•net>, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rebase: new convenient option to edit a single commit
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:37:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeh2hlsiu.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53159601.8020702@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:59:45 +0100")

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu> writes:

> ...  All of the following seem to make sense:
>
>     git rebase --edit COMMIT
>
>         A long-form for the -e option we have been talking about.
>         It is unfortunately that this spelling sounds like the
>         "--edit" option on "git commit --edit" and "git merge --edit",
>         so people might use it when they really mean
>         "git rebase --reword COMMIT".

I agree, so the "--edit" does *not* make sense as it invites confusion.

>     git rebase --reword COMMIT

Yes, that would make sense.

>     git rebase --fixup COMMIT
>     git rebase --squash COMMIT

I am not sure about these.  What does it even mean to "--fixup" (or
"--squash" for that matter) a single commit without specifying what
it is squashed into?  Or are you assuming that all of these is only
to affect pre-populated rebase-i insn sheet that is to be further
edited before the actual rebasing starts?  I somehow had an impression
that the reason to have these new options is to skip the editing of
the insn sheet in the editor altogether.

>     git rebase --kill COMMIT

This _does_ make sense under my assumption: "remove this commit from
the insn-sheet and go ahead with it, without bothering me to edit
the insn-sheet further".

> I'm quite confident that I would use all of these commands.

If "--kill" takes only one, I would probably do "rebase --onto"
without bothering with "-i" at all, but if it lets me drop multiple
non-consecutive commits, by accepting more than one "--kill", I see
how I would be using it myself.  I can see how "--reword"/"--amend"
would be useful even when dealing with only a single commit.

I do not know about --fixup/--squash though.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-04 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-27 13:01 [PATCH/RFC] rebase: new convenient option to edit a single commit Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-02-27 13:52 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28  6:58 ` Jeff King
2014-02-28  7:34   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-28  7:38     ` Jeff King
2014-02-28 17:14   ` Philip Oakley
2014-03-02  2:53 ` [PATCH 0/3] rebase's convenient options Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-02  2:53   ` [PATCH 1/3] rev-parse: support OPT_NUMBER_CALLBACK in --parseopt Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-04 18:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-02  2:53   ` [PATCH 2/3] rebase: accept -<number> as another way of saying HEAD~<number> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-02  8:37     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02  8:45       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-02  8:53     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02  8:55       ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02 15:55         ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03  9:16           ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-03  9:37             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03 10:04               ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-03 10:11                 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-03 10:12                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03 10:13               ` Jeff King
2014-03-03 21:48               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-03 22:39                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03 21:44             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-02  2:53   ` [PATCH 3/3] rebase: new convenient option to edit a single commit Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-02  9:04     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02  9:09       ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-03 10:10         ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-03 10:15           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-03 10:37             ` David Kastrup
2014-03-03 20:28     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-04  2:08       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-04  8:59         ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-04 10:24           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-04 13:11             ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-04 18:37           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-09  2:49           ` [PATCH/RFC] rebase: new convenient option to edit/reword/delete " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-09 16:30             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-10  8:30             ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10  8:41               ` Matthieu Moy

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