Re: support for git commit --amend/--signoff

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> If we only consider Git's and DaRCS's forms of amend, I'd say that the
>> "Amend:" header might be a good approach, and that it should specify the
>> revision/patch that's amended.  So for Git, you could have a command
>> that inserts "Amend: <SHA-1>" and then the backend could check that the
>> SHA-1 is the right one (which would avoid accidental use).
>
> A more general variant would be a header that allows to specify
> command line arguments like
>
> Arguments: --amend --signoff
>
> This will provide interchangeability: the user will be able to copy
> arguments from the *VC-log* buffer to the external command line and
> back to the *VC-log* buffer to construct the necessary command line.


That's very ugly from the UI point of view, it's not better than doing
the same thing from the command line directly.

More, for --amend it's desirable to copy the contents of the original
log in the *VC-log* buffer, so that the user can edit it, and check in
the modified version.