How can I prevent the dialog on doing git commit --amend

Question

There is a dialog that pops up on running:

git commit --amend

That wants me to review the messages. Is there a way to omit this dialog and

Answer 1

--no-edit is what you are looking for

git commit --amend --no-edit

From this article:

The editor will be populated with the message from the previous commit and including the --no-edit flag will allow you to make the ammendment to your commit without changing its commit message.

Answer 2

Would git commit --amend -C HEAD work?

I don't have a git repository convenient to test on, but in the help for commit:

-C , --reuse-message=<commit>

Take an existing commit object, and reuse the log message and the authorship information (including the timestamp) when creating the commit.

Answer 3

Just hit enter and then Ctrl+X to keep the same message