From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:18:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
Message-ID: <8739cxw2e6.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111206191124.GE9492@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:16:18PM +0530, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote:
>
>> I've found 
>> 
>> $ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend
>> 
>> useful.
>> 
>> The benefit of this technique is that it even works for git-rebase -i.
>
> I sometimes do a similar thing, but I don't use "cat". That will dump
> all of the log message (including the generated template) to stdout
> (i.e., the terminal), which is quite noisy. Instead, I use:
>
>   GIT_EDITOR=true git commit --amend
>
> which silently leaves the file untouched.

Thanks Peff.  I didn't know about true.  I will use it when rebasing.
cat's noisiness is useful as a review of the output.

> -Peff

-- 
Cheers
~vijay

Gnus should be more complicated.