How to add long description in git

Question

I'm commiting to git using git commit -m 'commit message', but this only has the short description. How would I add the more detailed description using git bash?

Answer 1

Did you know you can just type git commit and it will pop open an editor for you to write your commit message in?

You can control which editor it is with some configuration. By default, Git will look at $GIT_EDITOR, then the core.editor configuration variable, then $VISUAL, and finally $EDITOR. You can look at the git-var man page for the search order, and the git-config has a little information in the core.editor section as well.

Answer 2

You can specify multiple -m options:

git commit -m 'foo bar' -m 'baz qux'

git log will show multiple paragraphs:

commit ...
Author: ...
Date:   ...

    foo bar

    baz qux