How to commit a change with both "message" and "description" from the command line? [duplicate]

Question

I'm new to both git and GitHub. I managed to set up everything locally on my Mac, so that now I can push commits to GitHub via git (on the command line, not the Mac app).

When I push commits directly from the GitHub web interface (e.g. quickly fixing a typo), I have the chance to "comment" the commit, and GitHub gives me a commit title and a commit description. I find this very useful.

Still, when I git push from the local machine, git opens my default editor: so I write the commit comment, and then GitHub automatically divides it into title and "body". Is there a way to pretty comment commits from terminal too?

Answer 1

There is also another straight and more clear way

git commit -m "Title" -m "Description .........."; 

Answer 2

Use the git commit command without any flags. The configured editor will open (Vim in this case):

To start typing press the INSERT key on your keyboard, then in insert mode create a better commit with description how do you want. For example:

Once you have written all that you need, to returns to git, first you should exit insert mode, for that press ESC. Now close the Vim editor with save changes by typing on the keyboard :wq (w - write, q - quit):

and press ENTER.

On GitHub this commit will looks like this:

As a commit editor you can use VS Code:

git config --global core.editor "code --wait" 

From VS Code docs website: VS Code as Git editor

Gif demonstration: