PJ Weisberg <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tuesday, May 3, 2011, Hannu Koivisto <[email protected]> > wrote: >> [1] In fact, even before this change rewriting is not as convenient >> as it could be and I'm contemplating features such as amending >> commits other than the last, reordering and squashing commits by >> simply cut and pasting lines in the status buffer (without having >> to explicitly start rewriting), editing commit messages and maybe >> even commit diffs directly in status and commit buffers in the >> spirit of wdired. > > Careful you don't make it *too* convenient. Some of those are the > sort of thing that you *shouldn't* do to a history that other people > base their branches on, for reasons that aren't obvious to people > switching over from other version control systems. Eh? You shouldn't do *any* history rewriting at all in that case. That doesn't mean history rewriting isn't useful. I, for one, would appreciate more conveniences in the spirit described by Hannu. Štěpán
