I thought that calling
git commit --amend -m "A message"
twice in a row should lead to an error saying "nothing to commit (working
directory clean)", but it doesn't. Or at least, the result of the second commit
should be the same as the result of the first one, but I keep getting a
different hash each time
# git commit --amend -m "A message"
[master b8cf1c2] A message
# git commit --amend -m "A message"
[master 6c8ea30] A message
# git commit --amend -m "A message"
[master be318b3] A message
I wonder if everything is fine with my repo since I was doing some funny
rebasing and filtering and I'm quite new to git.
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:15, Maaartin [off-list ref] wrote:
I thought that calling
git commit --amend -m "A message"
twice in a row should lead to an error saying "nothing to commit (working
directory clean)", but it doesn't. Or at least, the result of the second commit
should be the same as the result of the first one, but I keep getting a
different hash each time
# git commit --amend -m "A message"
[master b8cf1c2] A message
# git commit --amend -m "A message"
[master 6c8ea30] A message
# git commit --amend -m "A message"
[master be318b3] A message
I wonder if everything is fine with my repo since I was doing some funny
rebasing and filtering and I'm quite new to git.
This is expected behavior. You're telling Git to amend the latest
commit with a new commit message (which happens to be equivalent to
the old one), and your sha1 keeps changing because the `commiter` time
entry in the commit changes every time you commit (well, with a
granularity of 1 second):
v foo (master) $ git commit --amend -m"blah"; GIT_PAGER=cat git
show --pretty=raw
[master 9cc96c7] blah
0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 blah
commit 9cc96c71ae30f94afaf891be58671a0adf89cedb
tree c4bf67b477e5e7470266b4227a664f7b175c9d4a
author Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] 1284802065 +0000
committer Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] 1284802096 +0000
blah
diff --git a/blah b/blah
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
v foo (master) $ git commit --amend -m"blah"; GIT_PAGER=cat git
show --pretty=raw
[master bc71b18] blah
0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 blah
commit bc71b18ae254b33e895ee840825bf357baa40e00
tree c4bf67b477e5e7470266b4227a664f7b175c9d4a
author Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] 1284802065 +0000
committer Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] 1284802097 +0000
blah
diff --git a/blah b/blah
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
v foo (master) $
Note the difference between 1284802096 and 1284802097 there.