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I was astonished last week again how bad GUIs for git are. Take VSCode: It encourages you to enter just the title of the commit message. That's the boring part

I was astonished last week again how bad GUIs for git are. Take VSCode: It encourages you to enter just the title of the commit message. That's the boring part for people used to describe WHY that change was made in the long message.

tweetle_beetle 4y ago
It arguably follows the underlying git design more closely than many git clients. Git has no concept of commit titles and commit descriptions - it's all just a message, so in VS Code you write it all in the same box with newlines [1]. It's definitely not obvious if you're used to having separate fields, but it's a bit unfair to complain about all GUI clients because an opinionated text input box is missing from a single feature from one of them surely? [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/51316392 https://stackoverflow.com/a/51316392