Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:16:18PM +0530, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote: > >> I've found >> >> $ GIT_EDITOR=cat git commit --amend >> >> useful. >> >> The benefit of this technique is that it even works for git-rebase -i. > > I sometimes do a similar thing, but I don't use "cat". That will dump > all of the log message (including the generated template) to stdout > (i.e., the terminal), which is quite noisy. Instead, I use: > > GIT_EDITOR=true git commit --amend > > which silently leaves the file untouched. Thanks Peff. I didn't know about true. I will use it when rebasing. cat's noisiness is useful as a review of the output. > -Peff -- Cheers ~vijay Gnus should be more complicated. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html