How to amend a commit without changing commit message reusing the previous one

Question

Is there a way to amend a commit without vi  or your  EDITOR  popping up with the option to modify your commit message  but simply reusing the previous message

User · Answer

Using the accepted answer to create an alias

 oops = "!f(){ \
    git add -A; \
    if [ \"$1\" == '' ]; then \
        git commit --amend --no-edit; \
    else \
        git commit --amend \"$@\"; \
    fi;\
}; f"

then you can do

git oops

and it will add everything, and amend using the same message

or

git oops -m "new message"

to amend replacing the message

User · Answer

Since git 1 7 9 version you can also use git commit --amend --no-edit to get your result   Note that this will not include metadata from the other commit such as the timestamp which may or may not be important to you

User · Answer

Another  silly  possibility is to git commit --amend  lt  lt  lt   wq if you ve got vi m  as  EDITOR

User · Answer

just to add some clarity  you need to stage changes with git add  then amend last commit  git add  path to modified files git commit --amend --no-edit  This is especially useful for if you forgot to add some changes in last commit or when you want to add more changes without creating new commits by reusing the last commit

User · Answer

To extend on the accepted answer  you can also do   git commit --amend --no-edit -a   to add the currently changed files

User · Answer

git commit -C HEAD --amend will do what you want   The -C option takes the metadata from another commit

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