Re: [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor with no changes written

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 3, 2010, 10:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20100203101509.GA25336@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100203093150.GA23956@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:31:50AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> > Or, he can set his $EDITOR to a script that checks the mtime.
> 
> Agreed. It could even look like this:

Also, while we are talking about editor-specific hacks, if you are using vim you can use ":cq" to exit with an error code.

-Peff

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