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From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Query on git commit amend
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've found 
>>
>> $ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend
>>
>> useful.
>
> Are you sure it is a cat?

Yes.

Did you mean something else by your question?

> I almost always use
>
>     $ EDITOR=: git commit --amend

I just tried this out.  This and Peff's GIT_EDITOR=true silently dwiw
but cat is useful to review the commit.

-- 
Cheers
~vijay

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