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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: rhys evans <rhys.evans@ft.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Possible bug report: `git commit -ammend`
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:54:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqsiux1wz3.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMyx444wJeQUpxZmXmYx-mKE0kniO=ELo5HgzQ1unV4O15oxWw@mail.gmail.com> (rhys evans's message of "Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:44:18 +0000")

rhys evans <rhys.evans@ft.com> writes:

> I ran `git commit -ammend` on a repo where 1 out of 3 files changed
> were staged for commit.
>
> I would've expected an error to be thrown due to the double typo but
> instead it committed all 3 files with the message 'mend'.
>
> So it looks like it interpreted it as `git commit -a -m 'mend'`.

Yes. This is a rather widespread convention (e.g. rm -fr == rm -r -f).
Git does a special-case for -amend to avoid confusion:

  $ git commit -amend
  error: did you mean `--amend` (with two dashes ?)

But it did not special-case the double-typo.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-15 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAMyx446B1U30RL9X7vOrY-u7fQ_cEqRJxn_M8Wn8PuOJhdO-1Q@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-15 15:44 ` Fwd: Possible bug report: `git commit -ammend` rhys evans
2013-11-15 15:54   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2013-11-16  3:28     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-11-16  4:02       ` Jeff King

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