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Sure, but how would you format your message so the lines aren't longer than 80 chars? I guess you can edit the command to read from STDIN, but that sounds much

Sure, but how would you format your message so the lines aren't longer than 80 chars? I guess you can edit the command to read from STDIN, but that sounds much more cumbersome than passing -e: git commit -F- <<EOF Fix issue Hello world... EOF

masklinn 6y ago
> Sure, but how would you format your message so the lines aren't longer than 80 chars? Put linebreaks and fill-paragraph for the later lines? You can put linebreaks in quoted shell strings, so once it's in an editor buffer there's no issue with that. > I guess you can edit the command to read from STDIN The use case here is "I've already started writing a commit message inline, I now realise I need more room, I don't want to bother copy/pasting stuff around". If I know from the start that I will need more than just a shortdesc, I'll obviously be crafting the message in my editor in the first place.
u801e 6y ago
Maybe something like fold -c -s -w 80 | git commit -F - <<EOF Fix issue Hello world... EOF