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From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:16:18 +0530
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Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Suppose i want to add few new changes to my last commit (HEAD).
> The way i do it is
> $ git add all_changed_files
> $ git commit --amend
>
> OR
> $ git commit --amend -a
>
> With both these ways, i get a screen to edit the message too.
>
> I want to know if there is a way to skip this screen.
>
> i.e.
> $ git commit --amend -a -some_other_option
>
> which simply adds new changes to existing commit, without asking to change
> message.
>
> If there is no such way, then can we add a patch for this, if it looks a valid
> case.

I've found 

$ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend

useful.

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

In my typical git usage, I do a lot of git-commit --fixup's.  After
reaching a level of stability, I change the history with:

GIT_EDITOR=cat git rebase -i --autosquash

and my history is adjusted without requiring manual intervention.

-- 
Cheers
~vijay

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