Re: Query on git commit amend

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2011, 04:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4EDEE988.2070902@st.com>
In-Reply-To: <87wra9und4.fsf@gmail.com>

Thanks guys. This whole session was new to me.

On 12/7/2011 7:58 AM, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote:

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> 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.

>> > I almost always use
>> >
>> >     $ EDITOR=: git commit --amend

Even this didn't worked for me:

error: pathspec '.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG' did not match any file(s) known to git. error: There was a problem with the editor 'git commit --amend'. Please supply the message using either -m or -F option. Could not commit staged changes.

Only "true" worked for me.

Probably, i have an older version of git (version 1.7.2.2)

One more thing. I couldn't get completely how this worked. Maybe any pointers to earlier discussions.

The way i am testing it is:
- Stop after a commit in middle of rebase using "edit" or "e" option
- set EDITOR or GIT_EDITOR
- change files
- git add changed_files
- git rebase --continue

-- 
viresh