Re: [PATCH/RFC] commit: add short option for --amend

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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 08:31:17PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
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> > I just realized how often I type "git ci --amend". Looking back at my
> > ~/.bash_history (only 10k lines) this is the second most often git
> > command I type which may justify a short option for it (assuming that
> > other people use this option often too, of course).
> >
> > The short option space for 'git commit' is really crowded with
> > acCeFhimnopqsStuvz already taken. So it could be '-M' or '-A' but I'd
> > prefer not to hold shift, so I chose '-j' even though it's not
> > strictly related to "amend" (or perhaps we can thinking of amending as
> > joining commits).
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I also used to type it a lot. So I did:
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>   $ type a
>   a is aliased to `git commit --amend'
>
> I don't know if that argues for or against a short option.