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TIL: git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits

 3 years ago
source link: https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/git-commit-accepts-several-message-flags-m-to-allow-multiline-commits/
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When you use git on the command line you might have used the message flag ( -m ). It allows developers to define commit messages inline when calling git commit. 

git commit -m "my commit message"

I'm not the biggest fan of this approach because I prefer to edit the commit message in vim (which I only use for writing commit messages). It gives me the opportunity to double-check the files I'm committing.

Today I learned that the git commit command accepts multiple message flags. :astonished:

It turns out that you can use the -m option multiple times. The git documentation includes the following paragraph: 

If multiple -m options are given, their values are concatenated as separate paragraphs

If you run the following command

git co -m "commit title" -m "commit description"

it will result in this commit.

Author: stefan judis 
<stefanjudis gmail="" com="">
 
Date:   Tue Jul 7 21:53:21 2020 +0200

    commit title

    commit description

 test.txt | 0
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
</stefanjudis>

You can use multiple -m flags to create "multiline commits", and I have to admit that this can be very handy in some cases.

If you want to see this command in action, I shared a short terminal session on Twitter with a little video .


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