On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 08:31:17PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > I just realized how often I type "git ci --amend". Looking back at my > ~/.bash_history (only 10k lines) this is the second most often git > command I type which may justify a short option for it (assuming that > other people use this option often too, of course). > > The short option space for 'git commit' is really crowded with > acCeFhimnopqsStuvz already taken. So it could be '-M' or '-A' but I'd > prefer not to hold shift, so I chose '-j' even though it's not > strictly related to "amend" (or perhaps we can thinking of amending as > joining commits). > > Thoughts? I also used to type it a lot. So I did: $ type a a is aliased to `git commit --amend' I don't know if that argues for or against a short option. -Peff