Re: Amending commits

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 25 2022, Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [ஞாயிறு செப்டம்பர் 25, 2022] Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>>
>>>> There should be a command in `vc-dir-mode' that allows you to amend the
>>>> last commit, I think.
>>>
>>> That would be good, because it would also allow easier to reword a
>>> commit that doesn't require any code changes.
>>
>> As someone who does not really understand Git, does this mean we are
>> rewriting the log message without also committing a change?  I thought
>> that was not allowed by Git.
>
> Git allows it if you pass the --allow-empty flag.

You don't need --allow-empty if you use --amend.

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