From: Daniel Knittl-Frank Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:59:28 GMT Subject: Re: How to prevent empty git commit --amend Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Ivo Anjo wrote: > 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 -- typed with http://neo-layout.org