From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>,
"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Shiraz HASHIM <shiraz.hashim@st.com>
Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:48:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739cxw2e6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111206191124.GE9492@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:11:24 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 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.
Thanks Peff. I didn't know about true. I will use it when rebasing.
cat's noisiness is useful as a review of the output.
> -Peff
--
Cheers
~vijay
Gnus should be more complicated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-06 8:23 Query on git commit amend Viresh Kumar
2011-12-06 9:01 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2011-12-06 19:09 ` Dirk Süsserott
2011-12-06 9:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-06 9:20 ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-06 9:22 ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-06 15:46 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-12-06 19:11 ` Jeff King
2011-12-07 2:18 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan [this message]
2011-12-06 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-06 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-07 14:42 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/4] Re: commit: honor --no-edit Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 14:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] test: add missing "&&" after echo command Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 23:10 ` Jeff King
2011-12-07 23:11 ` Jeff King
2011-12-07 14:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] test: remove a porcelain test that hard-codes commit names Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 14:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] t7501 (commit): modernize style Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 14:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] test: commit --amend should honor --no-edit Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 2:28 ` Query on git commit amend Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-12-07 4:20 ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-07 4:53 ` Björn Steinbrink
2011-12-07 5:45 ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-07 15:06 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-12-08 17:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-09 4:49 ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-08 5:26 ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-08 5:30 ` Viresh Kumar
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