From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:15:05 GMT Subject: Re: git commit broken ? Message-ID: <7vhd51alti.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: "Franck Bui-Huu" writes: > It seems that "git commit -a -c ORIG_HEAD" command do not work as > expected. > > $ git commit -a -c ORIG_HEAD > $ git status > nothing to commit > > So it seems that c has been commmited this time...Is it the expected > behaviour ? You said "git commit -a" to tell it to commit all your changes in your working tree, using "-c ORIG_HEAD" which means "take the commit log message and authorship information from that commit". So I do not understand what else, other than both a and c getting committed (hence subsequent "git status" to report "nothing to commit'), you are expecting...