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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
