Carlos Martín Nieto <c...@elego.de> writes:
> On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 23:25 +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
>
>> + Replace the tip of the current branch with a fresh commit.
>> [or updated commit, or new commit, or ...]
>
> Ack, we should lead with the goal, I'd go for the
>
> "Replace the tip of the current branch with a new commit"
>
> wording.
We would want to be careful to make sure that the reader understands
that the "new commit" is created by running this command (i.e. it is
not like "git branch -f $current_branch $new_commit"), but other
than that, sounds sensible.
Perhaps like this?
Documentation/git-commit.txt | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index bc919ac..61266d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ OPTIONS
without changing its commit message.
--amend::
- Create a new commit and replace the tip of the current
- branch. The recorded tree is prepared as usual (including
+ Replace the tip of the current branch by creating a new
+ commit. The recorded tree is prepared as usual (including
the effect of the `-i` and `-o` options and explicit
pathspec), and the message from the original commit is used
as the starting point, instead of an empty message, when no
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