git: Quick Multi-Line Commit Messages

Tue, Dec 13, 2022 · Tagged git, TIL, tips · 1 minute read

I don’t know why I’m quite so tickled by this, but today I learned that you can make multi-line git commit messages by passing multiple -m arguments:

$ git commit -m "Stop storing builds on CI server" -m "Who cares?"
[deps-edn 6a67840f] Stop storing builds on CI server
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

$ git show
commit 6a67840f7d1aceb92521556e5043a0f928233d49 (HEAD -> deps-edn)
Author: Cameron Desautels <camdez@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 13 21:22:09 2022 -0600

    Stop storing builds on CI server
    
    Who cares?

Kind of awesome, right?

FWIW, the lines are not wrapped—only separated by newlines.

Hat tip to Drew Miller on Mastodon.

git: Quick Multi-Line Commit Messages

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