From 8588452ceb78b1da17652ba03f9942ef740e07ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:36:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] git-commit --amend: allow empty commit.

When amending a commit only to update the commit log message, git-status
would rightly say "Nothing to commit."  Do not let this prevent commit to
be made.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 git-commit.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh
index d9ec1f14d9..330a434b18 100755
--- a/git-commit.sh
+++ b/git-commit.sh
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ fi
 	test -z "$only_include_assumed" || echo "$only_include_assumed"
 	run_status
 } >>"$GIT_DIR"/COMMIT_EDITMSG
-if [ "$?" != "0" -a ! -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" ]
+if [ "$?" != "0" -a ! -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" -a -z "$amend" ]
 then
 	rm -f "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG"
 	run_status
-- 
2.11.4.GIT