From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:19:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Adding a commit message to the index
Message-ID: <AANLkTinbgTx=ihy82zPRvsv-WvdeEPt0fX+arCQaKnUr@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3347.4c955dd6.4a79e@getafix.xdna.net>

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.