Re: git-commit --amend -m "..." complains?!?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 1, 2007, 17:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8x8v5g2z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <86643znxgz.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

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> I get
>
> Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F/--amend.
>
> but that makes no sense: of course there is ample reason for providing
> an amended commit message on the command line.  -c, -C and -F indeed
> all provide an alternative commit message, but --amend doesn't.

The option --amend is about "reusing the original commit message and make amending edit on top". If you are restarting the message from scratch, --amend does not make much sense.

You can do:

	$ git reset HEAD^
        $ git commit -m "blah"

if you do not want to reuse the commit message.