From: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:20:20 GMT
Subject: Re: commit --amend neglecting return value
Message-ID: <E139EF92-B047-4928-A390-D47224CAA3DB@gernhardtsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <196847A3-42CB-4CE8-8FFC-D7C8C8AFCDF7@gernhardtsoftware.com>


On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> If you want to abort committing while editing the message, delete the entire message (in Vim: "0dG:wq^M") and git will reply "Aborting commit due to empty commit message."

Oops.  Obviously I meant "ggdG:wq^M".

Also, a quick search of :help and testing reveals that ":cq" causes Vim to exit with non-zero status which will cause git to abort the commit.

~~ Brian