Re: How to prevent empty git commit --amend

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>

Date

Jan 14, 2015, 10:00 UTC

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Ivo Anjo <ivo.anjo@ist.utl.pt> writes:

> 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 :)

I don't know any way to let Git do the check for you, but 

git diff --staged --quiet || git commit --amend

should do it. You can alias it like

[alias]
	amend = !git diff --staged --quiet || git commit --amend

and then use "git amend".

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Matthieu Moy
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