Re: Query on git commit amend

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:16:18PM +0530, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote:

I've found 

$ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend

useful.

The benefit of this technique is that it even works for git-rebase -i.

I sometimes do a similar thing, but I don't use "cat". That will dump
all of the log message (including the generated template) to stdout
(i.e., the terminal), which is quite noisy. Instead, I use:

  GIT_EDITOR=true git commit --amend

which silently leaves the file untouched.

-Peff