Re: Amending commits

[Rudolf Schlatte]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Yes.  My use case is "git am" and then I want to add the bug# to the
>>> commit message -- and in that case, I don't have a log-edit buffer at
>>> all.
>>
>> Can't you set vc-checkin-switches to "--amend" and then commit?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.  How would that help with "git am"?

FWIW, after you apply a series of patches via `git am', you can use `git
rebase -i' (interactive rebase) to bulk-edit commit messages, among
other things.  (Writing this just in case you or another reader didn't
know this yet.)