From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:03:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
Message-ID: <7vobvlfowk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87fwgxwvn9.fsf@gmail.com>

Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com> writes:

> I've found 
>
> $ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend
>
> useful.

Are you sure it is a cat?

I almost always use

    $ EDITOR=: git commit --amend

when rewriting the contents without updating the message, but I think
we should allow people to say:

    $ git commit --amend --no-edit

which is accepted from the command line but is not honoured.