Re: 1.5.3 plans and preparations

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>   - "git commit --amend" is now compatible with various message source
>>     options such as -m/-C/-c/-F.
>
> Urgh.  That makes it much more easy for new users to shoot
> themselves in the foot.  By "-C" and "-F" you do not even see the
> runstatus anymore, since no editor was fired up.  Please say
> something like "use with care", or "do not try this at home", too.

Hm?  How is that specific to "--amend"?  Isn't that just a consequence
of -m/-C/-F, regardless of whether one uses --amend or not?

When there are unmerged changes, --amend will not complete anyway.
And of course, if you got things wrong, you can always do another
--amend, so it is not like there is serious damage involved.

What do I overlook here?

And before you complain about not getting a copy by Email again: I
have to go via Gmane from my work account, since it will for some
unfathomable reason drop most of my mails (except those I use for
testing the problem) from this address.  It is manual work to add a
"Cc" header in this setup (which I often forget), and even then, I
doubt this copy will arrive at your place via mail (please tell me if
it does).

-- 
David Kastrup