Re: [Qgit RFC] commit --amend

> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 14:44:16 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote:
>> On 7/4/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> But if a Porcelain like StGIT or Qgit would want to do that kind
>>> of operation for different use case than "amending", it can and
>>> should use plumbing commands, just like the implementation of
>>> "commit --amend" does, with different constraints and error
>>> checks.
>
> I would prefer if there was something between git-commit-tree and git-commit.
> There are several steps one has to do for commit, that are the same for most
> ways of commit:
>  - call pre-commit hook (unless --no-verify)
>  - write-tree
>  - commit-tree
>  - update-ref
>  - mv next-index index
>  - call post-commit hook (unless --no-verify or unconditionally?)
>
> Would factoring out such script from the end of git-commit.sh be accepted?
>
> Or would it be possible to get just that from git-commit with right options?
> Basically I need to replicate the logic with 
>
> I would suggest a name git-commit-index. It would take the index to commit,
> index to move in after commit, head to update, list of parents and commit
> message on standard input (as commit-tree does).