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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

Another (silly) possibility is to git commit --amend <<< :wq if you've got vi(m) as $EDITOR.

Answer 4

To extend on the accepted answer, you can also do:

git commit --amend --no-edit -a

to add the currently changed files.

Answer 5

I use an alias that uses the accepted answer. Then this command can be used:

git oops will add everything, and amend using the same message

git oops -m "new message" will amend replacing the message

---

This is the alias

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

Answer 6

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.