On 2/26/07, Timur Tabi timur@freescale.com wrote:
Grant Likely wrote:
hehehe, that's a lot of work for a simple thing. Drop the git-commit -m flag and use -F instead to add the commit log from a file (or use neither and git-commit will bring up an editor).
I haven't tried it, but according to the online help, -F sets the commit *message*, which is the one-line text that becomes the subject line. git-commit.txt contains the block of text that appears above the "diff" line.
Actually only the first line of the commit message becomes the subject line. Subsequent lines are the detail.
Typical convention for the commit message seems to be: 1 line summary; 1 blank line; detailed description; signed-off-by lines. In fact, when using the -m flag, you can add a detailed description too by inserting carriage returns within the quotes.
For example: $ git commit -m "This is the subject line
This is detail line 1 This is detail line 2 This is detail line 3" -s
$
which gives: $ git log HEAD~1..HEAD commit 122b83871419754ee24e3d28a72a302958b7c3fa Author: Grant Likely grant.likely@secretlab.ca Date: Mon Feb 26 15:53:35 2007 -0700
This is the subject line
This is detail line 1 This is detail line 2 This is detail line 3
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely grant.likely@secretlab.ca $
You can also use -s to add your signoff line too.
I do use -s:
PATCHFILE=`git-format-patch -s $IGNOREEOL HEAD^ `
That works too. :-)