Re: amend warnings with no changes staged

[Lukas Gross <lukasgross@u.northwestern.edu>]

Hi Jonathan,

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.

Lukas

On 8/5/19, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lukas Gross wrote:
>
>> I have occasionally used git commit --amend without staging any
>> changes or modifying the commit message (--no-edit). Since this is
>> often done unintentionally, could amend warn when it is being used in
>> this way?
>
> Can you say more about the context?  What were you trying to do when
> you performed this operation?  What happened instead?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>


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