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From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Cc: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Shiraz HASHIM" <shiraz.hashim@st.com>,
	"Vipin KUMAR" <vipin.kumar@st.com>
Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:36:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehwgv2uc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDEFD66.4020404@st.com> (Viresh Kumar's message of "Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:15:10 +0530")

Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> writes:

[snip]

> Now, whats the benefit of 
>
> GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend
>
> over
>
> git commit --amend -C HEAD
>
> ?

The latter preserves the original timestamp of the commit and other
environment variables like GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
whereas GIT_EDITOR=cat (or true or :) are equivalent to opening up the
commit in an editor and so consider these variables during execution.

For instance, you could say

$ GIT_EDITOR=cat GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=foo@bar.baz git commit --amend

and the commiter email would be set to foo@bar.baz

-- 
Cheers
~vijay

Gnus should be more complicated.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-07 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-06  8:23 Query on git commit amend Viresh Kumar
2011-12-06  9:01 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2011-12-06 19:09   ` Dirk Süsserott
2011-12-06  9:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-06  9:20   ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-06  9:22     ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-06 15:46 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-12-06 19:11   ` Jeff King
2011-12-07  2:18     ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-12-06 20:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-06 21:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-07 14:42       ` [PATCH/RFC 0/4] Re: commit: honor --no-edit Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 14:45         ` [PATCH 1/4] test: add missing "&&" after echo command Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 23:10           ` Jeff King
2011-12-07 23:11             ` Jeff King
2011-12-07 14:49         ` [PATCH 2/4] test: remove a porcelain test that hard-codes commit names Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 14:50         ` [PATCH 3/4] t7501 (commit): modernize style Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07 14:54         ` [PATCH 4/4] test: commit --amend should honor --no-edit Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-07  2:28     ` Query on git commit amend Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-12-07  4:20       ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-07  4:53         ` Björn Steinbrink
2011-12-07  5:45           ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-07 15:06             ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan [this message]
2011-12-08 17:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-09  4:49               ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-08  5:26   ` Viresh Kumar
2011-12-08  5:30     ` Viresh Kumar

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