Git amend: Line break is removed

[tsalinger]

Problem: Trying to amend a previous commit which contains line breaks. The line breaks are not preserved in the quick picker.

Would it be a worse UX if the commit message was shown in the intial commit input box instead of the quick picker?

[joaomoreno]

@tsalinger It's a good idea to populate the input box instead, but it'll be hard to remember that the next commit will be an amended one. What if the user wants to cancel it?

[tsalinger]

Hmm... I see the problem.
A quickfix could be to display and parse the line breaks in the quickpick.

A more sophisticated approach would be to add a showMessage of type info to the inputBox.
It would notify the user that a) it's currently in an amend operation and b) that ESC aborts it.
However, I'm not sure how well this would integrate into the current workflow.

[tsalinger]

@chrmarti this might be another scenario to consider for your quickpick exploration?

[dmstern]

It's a good idea to populate the input box instead, but it'll be hard to remember that the next commit will be an amended one. What if the user wants to cancel it?

@joaomoreno This could be solved by #46994.

[robsonsobral]

This is speacially annoying when using Jira Smart commits.

[madig]

Atom solves this nicely.

[jbrundage]

I would greatly appreciate this issue being resolved.

[eamodio]

This is a duplicate of this #40295 right?

[myrdd]

@eamodio I think so, too

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