Re: Query on git commit amend

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2011, 05:45 UTC
Message-ID: <4EDEFD66.4020404@st.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111207045325.GA22990@atjola.homenet>

On 12/7/2011 10:23 AM, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

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> 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.

Ok. Got it now.

Now, whats the benefit of

GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend

over

git commit --amend -C HEAD

Obviously if we have more than one commit to handle during a rebase then, setting editor to cat once, would be good. As now we don't really need to do git commit --amend. We can add commits and continue rebase. But for single commit probably second one looks easier. Isn't it? Or maybe the latest patch from Junio is even better.

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viresh