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Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
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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