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Re: How to prevent empty git commit --amend

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Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89@googlemail.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2015, 08:59 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Ivo Anjo <ivo.anjo@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I sometimes get a bit distracted when making amends. Once or twice per
> week I do a commit, then realize I added something I shouldn't, or
> forgot to add a line here or there, and then I do a git commit --amend
> to fix it.
>
> The thing is, a lot of times I forget to stage the modifications I did.
> And here is my issue: *git commit* refuses to work when there's
> nothing to commit, but *git commit --amend* happily pops up the editor
> and says you have committed something when you did not add/change
> anything.
>
> Is there a way to prevent a *git commit --amend** with nothing to
> commit from working?
> If not, I would like to suggest that this feature would be very helpful :)
Hi Ivo,

simply delete all text from the commit editor and exit/save the empty file. This will abort the commit.

The same logic applies to git rebase --interactive: deleting everything will do nothing.

Regards, Daniel

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  4. Michael J GruberJan 13, 2015
  5. Matthieu MoyJan 14, 2015
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  7. Matthieu MoyJan 14, 2015
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  10. commit/status: show the index-worktree with -v -vMichael J Gruber, Jan 15, 2015
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  20. 2/2 commit/status: show the index-worktree diff with -v -vMichael J Gruber, Mar 3, 2015
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2015
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  28. 1/3 t7508: .gitignore 'expect' and 'output' filesMichael J Gruber, Mar 5, 2015
  29. 2/3 t7508: test git status -vMichael J Gruber, Mar 5, 2015
  30. 3/3 commit/status: show the index-worktree diff with -v -vMichael J Gruber, Mar 5, 2015

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