Subject: Re: How to prevent empty git commit --amend

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:45:31 +0100

Ivo Anjo <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> [alias]
>>         amend = !git diff --staged --quiet || git commit --amend
>>
>> and then use "git amend".
>
> Genius! This is exactly what I wanted, thanks!

You probably want to tweak the alias by adding a && echo "Nothing to
commit, sorry" (or an if/then/fi) after git diff to get the appropriate
error message though.

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