From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:57:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cg-tag - add support for longer commit messages
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510110754110.14597@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <11289987493327-git-send-email-martin@catalyst.net.nz>



On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
> Added an -m switch that points to a filename which contains a (potentially
> long) tag message.

At least core git has "-m 'message'" and "-F 'file'" (with long versions 
being "--message" and "--file" respectively) for this kind of thing in 
"git commit". Maybe it would be good to make that the standard interface.

When scripting, using a separate file is often inconvenient, and giving 
the message as an argument much nicer. So you do often want both.

		Linus