Re: Query on git commit amend

From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 7, 2011, 04:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20111207045325.GA22990@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <4EDEE988.2070902@st.com>

On 2011.12.07 09:50:24 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:

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> 
> Thanks guys. This whole session was new to me.
> 
> On 12/7/2011 7:58 AM, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> > 
> >> > Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com> writes:
> >> >
> >>> >> I've found 
> >>> >>
> >>> >> $ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend
> >>> >>
> >>> >> useful.
> >> >
> >> > Are you sure it is a cat?
> > Yes.
> 
> This didn't worked for me. Got following error:
> 
> cat: unrecognized option `--amend'
> Try `cat --help' for more information.
> error: There was a problem with the editor 'cat git commit --amend'.
> Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
> Could not commit staged changes.

That looks like you did something like: export GIT_EDITOR="cat git commit --amend"

But the original command was:
  GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend

Notice that there are no quotes and no escaped spaces. This is a shortcut to set GIT_EDITOR to "cat" for just this one command (git commit --amend).

If you want to set the editor in the environment, use just "export GIT_EDITOR=cat" or something like that.

HTH Björn