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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 05:15:09 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:31:50AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> > Or, he can set his $EDITOR to a script that checks the mtime.
> 
> Agreed. It could even look like this:

Also, while we are talking about editor-specific hacks, if you are using
vim you can use ":cq" to exit with an error code.

-Peff