Is there a way to accumulate a commit message with git while examing changes?

Posted by carleeto on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by carleeto
Published on 2010-05-09T22:52:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 22:58 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 230

Filed under:

git

|

commit-message

|

accumulate

I use "git add -p" to stage my changes. What I'd like to be able to do is to accumulate a commit message as I'm examining my changes and then when I call "git commit", it is already filled out for me and allows me to make changes before I commit.

Now, its easy to do with git gui by simply examining the changes and editing the commit message text box accordingly, but I'm a command line guy and was wondering if this is possible at the command line.

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about git

git pull gives error: 401 Authorization Required while accessing https://git.foo.com/bar.git

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
My macbook pro is able to clone/push/pull from the company git server. My cent 6.3 vm gets a 401 error git clone https://git.acme.com/git/torque-setup "error: The requested URL returned error: 401 Authorization Required while accessing https://git.acme.com/git/torque-setup/info/refs As a work… >>> More
Can't install git on Ubuntu 12.10

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I'm following these instructions to install git on my laptop: http://git-scm.com/download/linux When I do: $ sudo apt-get install git-core This is what my terinal shows: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages… >>> More
Git apache : unable to push via http

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I have to setup a server which can allow http vcs management (such as git and svn). svn support works well, but I have some trouble with git. Actual configuration: CentOS 5 Apache 2.2.8 Git 1.7.4.1 The /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf content: ServerTokens OS ServerRoot "/etc/httpd" PidFile run/httpd… >>> More
git on HTTP with gitolite and nginx

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I am trying to setup a server where my git repo would be accessible with HTTP(S). I am using gitolite and nginx (and gitlab for web interface but I doubt it makes any difference). I have searched the whole afternoon and I think I'm stuck. I have think I have understood that nginx needs fcgiwrap… >>> More
Redmine git integration - issue in accessing git from redmine but not from external git client

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I have setup redmine integration with apache as described in the redmine documentation. I have a /git path accessible with auth and /git-private accessible only to redmine. When I clone the repository through /git path, I get the up-to-date repo. But when I try to view it in redmine repo viewer, I… >>> More

Related posts about commit-message

Use linefeed or carriage return in Subversion commit message from the command line

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I am using Subversion 1.6.6 on Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to insert a carriage return, or linefeed, or newline into my commit message so that when reading the log, the comments are formatted appropriately. It works fine when I use the system editor, or specify a file for the commit comment, but what… >>> More
egg git interface for emacs, commit message empty

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm using egg (emacs got git) as git interface in emacs. Whenever I try to achieve a commit --amend, I receive a "GIT-COMMIT-AMEND> Aborting commit due to empty commit message". This is what i do: C-u C-x v c Then the commit buffer appears, with the message of my previous commit. Then upon… >>> More
Updating Commit Message in Mercurial MQ extension

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
After using hg qnew and hg qrefresh to create and update a patch that I want to apply to my repository, but the commit message that I wrote when I did hg qnew was not very good, it did not reference the ticket number from trac, and I would like to say something in it about some of the issues that… >>> More
Pre-fill SVN commit message with guideline

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I would like to show guidelines to commiter independently of the subversion client used. Do you know how to do that? >>> More
Start a git commit message with a hashmark (#)

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Git treats lines starting with # as comment lines when committing. this is very annoying when working with a ticket tracking system, and trying to write the ticket number at the beginning of the line, e.g. #123 salt hashed passwords git will simply remove the line from the commit message. is there… >>> More