The way git displays log messages is that it will take the 1st line and use that in git log –oneline, and then anything else is displayed when using the normal git log, as long as there’s a blank line between the first and second parts: Add summary line here An example of how to … Read more
Per the docs, I just tried this simple command and it worked for me: git commit –no-edit Afterward, run git log to confirm that the default message has been used.
Git is a distributed VCS (version control system). Multiple people can work on the same projects. It’ll get changes from many sources.Rather than writing messages that say what a committer has done. It’s better to consider these messages as the instructions for what is going to be done after the commit is applied on the … Read more
This is vim, it’s a common unix editor press: :wq that’s it. (w=write q=quit)
When you just describe what you’ve done (in technical yet fuzzy terms like “added a function”), you’re not adding much to what Git already stores in the commit. Imagine yourself reading the commit message some time later; what kind of summary would help you most remembering / communicating to other developers the essence of that … Read more
Add this to your .vimrc: au FileType gitcommit setlocal tw=72
Calling exec < /dev/tty assigns standard input to the keyboard. Works for me in a post-commit git hook: #!/bin/sh echo “[post-commit hook] Commit done!” # Allows us to read user input below, assigns stdin to keyboard exec < /dev/tty while true; do read -p “[post-commit hook] Check for outdated gems? (Y/n) ” yn if [ … Read more
You can just add –no-edit to use the last message. This option existed since 2005 but only recently has been enabled for the –amend option. The other way is to add -C HEAD to the commit command with amend option. This allows you to not just use the current commit’s message but you can specify … Read more
After a git reset, this one-liner can do it: git commit –reuse-message=HEAD@{1} or even shorter: git commit -C HEAD@{1} You can use the other options given by @user2718704.
The message from Linus Torvalds may answer your question: Modify/edit old commit messages Short answer: you can not (if pushed). extract (Linus refers to BitKeeper as BK): Side note, just out of historical interest: in BK you could. And if you’re used to it (like I was) it was really quite practical. I would apply … Read more