How to Write a Git Commit Message

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Nice Narwhal answered on April 4, 2020 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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Summarize changes in around 50 characters or less

More detailed explanatory text, if necessary. Wrap it to about 72
characters or so. In some contexts, the first line is treated as the
subject of the commit and the rest of the text as the body. The
blank line separating the summary from the body is critical (unless
you omit the body entirely); various tools like `log`, `shortlog`
and `rebase` can get confused if you run the two together.

Explain the problem that this commit is solving. Focus on why you
are making this change as opposed to how (the code explains that).
Are there side effects or other unintuitive consequences of this
change? Here's the place to explain them.

Further paragraphs come after blank lines.

 - Bullet points are okay, too

 - Typically a hyphen or asterisk is used for the bullet, preceded
   by a single space, with blank lines in between, but conventions
   vary here

If you use an issue tracker, put references to them at the bottom,
like this:

Resolves: #123
See also: #456, #789

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// Use past tense for commit message.
1. feat - new feature
2. fix - bug fix
3. docs - changes in documentation
4. style - everything related to styling
5. refactor - code changes that neither fixes a bug or add new features
6. test - everything related to testing
7. chore - updating build task, package manager configs etc..

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$ git commit -m"Fix typo in introduction to user guide"

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Allowed <type> values: #
feat (new feature for the user, not a new feature for build script)
fix (bug fix for the user, not a fix to a build script)
docs (changes to the documentation)
style (formatting, missing semi colons, etc; no production code change)
refactor (refactoring production code, eg. renaming a variable)
test (adding missing tests, refactoring tests; no production code change)
chore (updating grunt tasks etc; no production code change)

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git commit -m"message"

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git commit -m "Write your message here"

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git commit -m <msg> 
git commit -message=<msg>

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The command that is used to write a commit message is “git commit -a”.
Now explain about -a flag by saying -a on the command line instructs git to commit the new content of all tracked files that have been modified. Also, mention you can use “git add <file>” before git commit -a if new files need to be committed for the first time.

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I decided to update the library version and put some notes in the README to that effect. This resulted in no obvious test failures.

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