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Re: Adding a commit message to the index

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 19, 2010, 12:19 UTC
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 00:48, Cameron Hutchison <lists@xdna.net> wrote:
> Is it possible to add a commit message to the index, and have it used as
> the final commit message, or as the template for the final commit
> message?

What Joshua suggests is better, but you can abuse git-commit by writing a commit message to e.g. .git/MERGE_MSG, then the message will be used at the next 'git commit'.

But just commiting /now/ and squashing/rebasing later is a much better workflow.

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  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 19, 2010
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