From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:11:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
Message-ID: <20111206191124.GE9492@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87fwgxwvn9.fsf@gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:16:18PM +0530, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote:

> I've found 
> 
> $ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend
> 
> useful.
> 
> The benefit of this technique is that it even works for git-rebase -i.

I sometimes do a similar thing, but I don't use "cat". That will dump
all of the log message (including the generated template) to stdout
(i.e., the terminal), which is quite noisy. Instead, I use:

  GIT_EDITOR=true git commit --amend

which silently leaves the file untouched.

-Peff