Lukas Gross wrote: > I had intended to stage commits but forgot to do so. Git responded > with a normal commit creation message, so I pushed to the remote to > begin a CI build. When the build failed for the same reason, I > realized I had forgotten to stage the changes. An additional line in > the response to the effect of “Warning: did you mean to amend with no > changes?” would be very helpful to shorten this feedback loop. On second thought: $ git commit --amend --no-edit [detached HEAD 33a3db8805] Git 2.23-rc1 Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Aug 2 13:12:24 2019 -0700 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) $ Some non-judgemental descriptive output like $ git commit --amend --no-edit No changes. $ would address this case, without bothering people who are doing it intentionally. So I think there's room for a simple improvement here. Care to take a stab at it? builtin/commit.c would be the place to start. Thanks and sorry for the roller-coaster, Jonathan