[PATCH RFC] commit: add --reuse-message for keeping the old commit message during amend

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 02/09/2013 12:05 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2013, at 9:34 PM, Durham Goode <durham at fb.com> wrote:
>
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Durham Goode <durham at fb.com>
>> # Date 1360352769 28800
>> # Node ID a761c31f54ca302d65b33199f6c9368890267eba
>> # Parent  e2b176cf28e374eb146c3e131871631ab9ace537
>> commit: add --reuse-message for keeping the old commit message during amend
>>
>> When people do 'hg commit --amend', most of the time they don't want to change
>> the commit message.  This adds a flag to do that without prompting the user.
>>
>> I imagine most people will use it in an alias such as:
>>
>>   amend=commit --amend --reuse-message
>>
>> Questions:
>> - Anyone have a better name?  'reuse-message' matches git which is why it was
>> chosen, but it seems a little long.
> I don't have a better one.

We usually don't use '-' in option names.

(--reuse-message might be long, but it is still shorter than --config 
ui.editor=true ... and more cross platform. The feature is still nice to 
have, but not something completely new.)

It would perhaps be better to name the option after what it does instead 
of what it doesn't do. Perhaps something like 'filesonly'.

This option seems to be the opposite of 'qref -e' ... but I guess it is 
too late to change the default for amend ...

/Mads