From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: git-commit --amend -m "..." complains?!?
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:25:16 +0200
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I get

Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F/--amend.

but that makes no sense: of course there is ample reason for providing
an amended commit message on the command line.  -c, -C and -F indeed
all provide an alternative commit message, but --amend doesn't.

So what is the beef?

-- 
David Kastrup