RFC: Possibility to re-edit last commit message

[Jari Aalto]

"Wichmann, Mats D" <mats.d.wichmann at intel.com> writes:

>>On ma, 2007-01-29 at 18:14 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>>> The reason why "bzr ci --re-edit" is imporartant is that 
>>there are many
>>> non-native speaker's that make typos and grammar mistakes 
>>all the time.
>>> We just don't notice them but only after looking the message 
>>second time
>>> (after the commit is already happened).
>>
>>In that situation, my approach would be two-fold: a) use a spell
>>checking editor and b) not worry about it much. :)
>
> There are other kinds of mistakes.  I don't worry about it
> if I misspell something, but on occasion I've noticed I
> punched in the wrong bug number if I'm including a bug
> reference, and that is one I want to go back and fix :)
>
> I liked the git syntax as noted by Matthieu:
>
> 	Fyi, this is "commit --amend" in git.

For what its worth, the word "amend" is very foreign to non-native
speakers.

Jari