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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Nov 15, 2013, 15:54 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqsiux1wz3.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAMyx444wJeQUpxZmXmYx-mKE0kniO=ELo5HgzQ1unV4O15oxWw@mail.gmail.com>

rhys evans <rhys.evans@ft.com> writes:

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> 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.

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Matthieu Moy
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