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u801e on Dec 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Write good git commit messages

>> If you end up staging the wrong hunk, then you will have to reset and recommit

> you don't have to reset anything

You have to reset the branch pointer to the previous commit, but I think using the --amend switch may do that for you.

tome on Dec 19, 2018 [–]

If you exit the commit message editor so that it retuns a non-zero exit code to git then nothing is committed and nothing is staged.

dllthomas on Dec 21, 2018 | [–]

With git, usually (maybe always?) exiting having saved an empty buffer is equivalent.

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