Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> writes: >> Offhand it is not clear from the proposed log message where the >> original breakage happened, but if this is to fix a regression >> between v2.17.0 and v2.18.0, then let's have it. As -rc2 slipped >> for a few days, it is reasonable to delay the final by a couple of >> days as well, if only to give the last minute fixes and translators >> reasonable time to breathe. > > Perhaps replacing the first paragraph with this would make > it clearer? > > Since 21d0764c82 ("rebase -i --root: let the sequencer handle even the > initial part", 2018-05-04), when splitting a repository, running `git > rebase -i --root` to reword the initial commit, Git dies with > > Alternately, a similar note could be added at the end. > > This regression was recently introduced in 21d0764c82 ("rebase -i > --root: let the sequencer handle even the initial part", 2018-05-04).
These certainly are ways to require one less hop to the readers than the original ;-) Having said that, I've already merged it down to 'next' and want to have these in 'master' before final, so no need to further fix-up the log message anymore. Thanks.
