Well you can add a description already: it's the title followed by two carriage returns, and anything after becomes the description[0]. Although your use case

Well you can add a description already: it's the title followed by two carriage returns, and anything after becomes the description[0]. Although your use case only makes sense for new modules/classes, with one commit per file. It sounds to me like you'd be better off just commenting your code. However I do agree that people are very often terrible at writing useful commit messages. [0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16122234/how-to-commit-a-change-with-both-message-and-description-from-the-command-li http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16122234/how-to-commit-a-...