Hi all. This mailing list seems somewhat sparsely used but I don't know that a GitHub issue is the right thing.
Fairly often I find myself wanting to split commits when I do interactive rebasing and I'm wondering if anyone has hints for how to handle this more easily using Magit. What I do today is invoke interactive rebase from Magit and mark the commit I want to split with "e" (edit). When Magit stops, I open a shell and run git reset HEAD~, then I go back to Magit and use it to add the bits I want to make the new commit(s). Often I want to use some form of the original commit message when I create the extra commits, so I also have to go spelunking to get a copy of the "under edit" commit message and paste it in. Then I always forget whether or not I have to create the final commit myself, or whether "rebase continue" will do it for me (it doesn't :)). Then I use "r r" to continue. Are there Magit features that will make this simpler for me, that I just don't know about? Things that would be nice: * Automatically do the reset operation. I can't come up with the right Magit "reset" operation for this. Is there a simple way to run the "git reset HEAD~" operation, or a shortcut? Could there be a mode in interactive rebase that would to this, some kind of "split" operation or something instead of just "edit"? I guess that requires a new feature in Git itself. * Automatically insert the commit message from the commit I'm editing, when I make a new commit. Or some command that will let me easily yank that message and start editing it. * Maybe something that does something smart if I "r r" (continue) when there are still files modified or staged. I'm not sure about this one. I'm happy to create GitHub issues for these if appropriate. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "magit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
