Re: How to prevent empty git commit --amend

> Hello Daniel,
> 
> Thanks for your answer!
> 
> My issue is not with cancelling the amend commit, is that because the
> amend commit already lists changes to the files I am working on (those
> changes that already went in the commit I was ammending), I don't
> realize that I forgot to add what I changed. For instance:
> 
> $ echo "Hello" >> readme.txt
> $ git add readme.txt
> $ git commit -m "Add readme"
> 
> $ echo "World" >> readme.txt
> $ git commit --amend
> 
> now if I just save and close the editor git will say it committed
> successfully (which it did), but in reality nothing at all happened.
> 
> Of course I can check the status or some other things before/after the
> amend commit, but since end up doing this error sometimes I was hoping
> I could set up git to stop me from doing it.