From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: git problems: >78 column commit message created by git revert. I'm stuck. What do I do?
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:17:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181006091713.GB4855@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-85grvOiJbwVqF+pYmHvteUDVimfWS+qz_S0w=cNUDzCg@mail.gmail.com>
Hello, Noam.
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 19:41:17 -0400, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 08:56, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> > I'd like to use git commit --amend, but this can only change one of the
> > two commit messages created by git revert.
> >
> > How can I resolve this mess?
> For the record, you can change the messages of multiple previous
> commits using rebase:
> git rebase --interactive HEAD~2
> This will pop up your $EDITOR. Change the occurrences of "pick" into
> "reword", then save and exit. You will then be able to edit each
> commit message in turn (again, in $EDITOR).
Thanks. I'll have a look at that sometime. I actually fixed the
immediate problem with Stefan's suggestion, temporarily removing the git
hook.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-06 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-03 12:49 git problems: >78 column commit message created by git revert. I'm stuck. What do I do? Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-03 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-03 23:41 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-06 9:17 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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