Protip for the author: --allow-empty ;P
But that doesn't change the files, so it won't show up in the tree view as the user is trying to accomplish.
instead of --amend?
Instead of adding or removing a space in random files when making cute and useless commit logs.
that's what I meant - "amend" would not create any extra commits/entries
...which is not a helpful advice when what they clearly wanted is to create a bunch of extra commits.
But that doesn't change the files, so it won't show up in the tree view as the user is trying to accomplish.
instead of --amend?
Instead of adding or removing a space in random files when making cute and useless commit logs.
that's what I meant - "amend" would not create any extra commits/entries
...which is not a helpful advice when what they clearly wanted is to create a bunch of extra commits.