How to confirm changes after `git commit --amend` in Terminal? [duplicate]

Question

When I write git commit --amend I get some kind of editor, where I can change the name of this commit. How to confirm and save my changes using keyboard?

Answer 1

Expanding on what William Pursell said, you probably ended up in vim. Save your changes and exit the editor by typing : to enter a command, followed by wq, then press enter. To exit vim without saving your changes do :q! instead.

To change this default to something you're more familiar with, you can set the EDITOR variable to something of your choice (try nano).

Just put export EDITOR=nano at the end of ~/.bash_profile (create the file if you don't already have it) to get this behaviour for every new terminal session.

Also, you could do git commit --amend -m 'Your message here' without a need for an editor at all.

Answer 2

Configure the editor like this (gedit as an example):

git config --global core.editor "gedit"

You can read the current configuration like this:

git config core.editor

You can also add the commit message from the command line.

git commit --amend -m "blablabla"

and the editor will not be opened at all.