Re: Fwd: Possible bug report: `git commit -ammend`

> rhys evans <rhys.evans@ft.com> writes:
>
>> I ran `git commit -ammend` on a repo where 1 out of 3 files changed
>> were staged for commit.
>>
>> I would've expected an error to be thrown due to the double typo but
>> instead it committed all 3 files with the message 'mend'.
>>
>> So it looks like it interpreted it as `git commit -a -m 'mend'`.
>
> Yes. This is a rather widespread convention (e.g. rm -fr == rm -r -f).
> Git does a special-case for -amend to avoid confusion:
>
>   $ git commit -amend
>   error: did you mean `--amend` (with two dashes ?)
>
> But it did not special-case the double-typo.