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Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
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Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com> writes:

> I've found 
>
> $ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend
>
> useful.

Are you sure it is a cat?

I almost always use

    $ EDITOR=: git commit --amend

when rewriting the contents without updating the message, but I think
we should allow people to say:

    $ git commit --amend --no-edit

which is accepted from the command line but is not honoured.