Re: git-commit --amend -m "..." complains?!?

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

I get

Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F/--amend.

but that makes no sense: of course there is ample reason for providing
an amended commit message on the command line.  -c, -C and -F indeed
all provide an alternative commit message, but --amend doesn't.

The option --amend is about "reusing the original commit message
and make amending edit on top".  If you are restarting the
message from scratch, --amend does not make much sense.

You can do:

	$ git reset HEAD^
        $ git commit -m "blah"

if you do not want to reuse the commit message.