Last week I spent on preparing the patch series, for the implementation of amend! commit (work-branch) and about to send it on the mailing list.

Currently we already have fixup! and squash! in git that works with --autosquash (quick reading) and implementing the amend! serves the other flavour for fixing the commit. So, for that we are proposing for adding two suboptions to git commit --fixup and both will create the amend! commit and works with --autosquash as below:

• git commit --fixup=amend:<commit>

It creates an amend! commit and allows to edit the commit message and upon rebasing with --autosquash it will fixup the contents and replace the commit message of <commit> with the amend! commit’s message body.

• git commit --fixup=reword:<commit>

It creates an empty amend! commit that only allows to edit the commit message and will not take any staged changes and when it is rebased with --autosquash it will reword the <commit>.

Progress:

I continued with doing the changes for amend option as suggested by Christian and Phillip. Next, adding reword option is also similar but here it will not take any staged changes and adding some extra flag checks for reword option in function parse_and_validate_options() in builtin/commit.c. Currently --fixup with options only supports the -m option. Maybe we can extend it by allowing --reset-author but for now it’s on halt. Then, worked on adding the tests(t/t7500-*.sh) and updating the documentation(git-commit.txt) for the --fixup with amend and reword option.

Besides this, I also usually read the Git Rev News, in which my favourite part is the Developer interviews, that I always enjoy reading and is a pill of inspiration.

Next:

My plan for this week is to start with the second part, implementation of the drop! commit and also in parallel work on the reviews or community suggestions, after sending the complete patch series which includes adding fixup[-C | -c] options in interactive rebase and implementation of amend! commit to the mailing list.

Thanks for reading!