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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Sven Strickroth <sven@cs-ware.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: git status --amend
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:04:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150331180414.GB19206@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551AB64F.4030400@cs-ware.de>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 04:59:27PM +0200, Sven Strickroth wrote:

> for frontends or scripts it would be helpful to be able to use "git
> status" for getting the repository status compared to HEAD~1 instead of
> only HEAD (as provided by "git commit --amend" in the pre-filled commit
> message).
> 
> Thus, I'm suggesting to add a "--amend" parameter (or a parameter with a
> better naming) to "git status".
> 
> What do you think of this idea?

Once upon a time "git status" really was just "git commit --dry-run".
These days it has diverged a bit. But I think you could get what you
want with:

  git commit --dry-run --amend

It even supports alternate styles like --short.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-31 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-31 14:59 RFC: git status --amend Sven Strickroth
2015-03-31 18:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-03-31 18:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-01  8:43     ` David Aguilar
2015-04-01 17:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-03 21:57         ` David Aguilar
2015-04-03 22:05           ` Jeff King

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