David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes: > I get > > Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F/--amend. > > but that makes no sense: of course there is ample reason for providing > an amended commit message on the command line. -c, -C and -F indeed > all provide an alternative commit message, but --amend doesn't. The option --amend is about "reusing the original commit message and make amending edit on top". If you are restarting the message from scratch, --amend does not make much sense. You can do: $ git reset HEAD^ $ git commit -m "blah" if you do not want to reuse the commit message. - 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