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1 | git-commit(1) |
2 | ============= | |
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3 | |
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
215a7ad1 | 6 | git-commit - Record your changes |
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7 | |
8 | SYNOPSIS | |
9 | -------- | |
cc1621e2 | 10 | 'git-commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] [-e] <file>... |
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11 | |
12 | DESCRIPTION | |
13 | ----------- | |
14 | Updates the index file for given paths, or all modified files if | |
15 | '-a' is specified, and makes a commit object. The command | |
16 | VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables to edit the commit log | |
17 | message. | |
18 | ||
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19 | This command can run `commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and |
20 | `post-commit` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more | |
21 | information. | |
22 | ||
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23 | OPTIONS |
24 | ------- | |
25 | -a:: | |
26 | Update all paths in the index file. | |
27 | ||
28 | -c or -C <commit>:: | |
29 | Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message | |
30 | and the authorship information (including the timestamp) | |
31 | when creating the commit. With '-C', the editor is not | |
32 | invoked; with '-c' the user can further edit the commit | |
33 | message. | |
34 | ||
35 | -F <file>:: | |
36 | Take the commit message from the given file. Use '-' to | |
37 | read the message from the standard input. | |
38 | ||
39 | -m <msg>:: | |
40 | Use the given <msg> as the commit message. | |
41 | ||
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42 | -s:: |
43 | Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. | |
44 | ||
45 | -v:: | |
46 | Look for suspicious lines the commit introduces, and | |
47 | abort committing if there is one. The definition of | |
48 | 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has | |
49 | trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation | |
50 | has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB | |
51 | character. | |
52 | ||
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53 | -e:: |
54 | The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with | |
55 | `-m`, and from file with `-C` are usually used as the | |
56 | commit log message unmodified. This option lets you | |
57 | further edit the message taken from these sources. | |
58 | ||
62033318 | 59 | <file>...:: |
6d35cc76 | 60 | Update specified paths in the index file before committing. |
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61 | |
62 | ||
63 | Author | |
64 | ------ | |
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65 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and |
66 | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | |
67 | ||
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68 | |
69 | GIT | |
70 | --- | |
a7154e91 | 71 | Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |