From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:48:33 +0000 (-0700) Subject: rebase -i: remind that the lines are top-to-bottom X-Git-Tag: v1.7.10.2~16^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a93f9576a705753845ffa9fc5eb62c1d7fdd4a1;p=git.git rebase -i: remind that the lines are top-to-bottom Nelson Benitez Leon opened a discussion with a patch with this in the note: Hi, I was using git rebase -i for some time now and never occured to me I could reorder the commit lines to affect the order the commits are applied, learnt that recently from a git tutorial. Nelson's patch was to stress the fact that the lines in the insn sheet can be re-ordered in a much more verbose way. Let's add a one-liner reminder and also remind that the lines in the insn sheet is read from top to bottom, unlike the "git log" output. Discussion-triggered-by: Nelson Benitez Leon Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index 5812222eb..2b7eb6dda 100644 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -846,6 +846,8 @@ cat >> "$todo" << EOF # f, fixup = like "squash", but discard this commit's log message # x, exec = run command (the rest of the line) using shell # +# These lines can be re-ordered; they are executed from top to bottom. +# # If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST. # However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted. #