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Perhaps he did not know, but I find that a lot of developers, especially those not using GUIs, end up using -m every single time and writing poor commit message
by deltaprotocol 11y ago
Perhaps he did not know, but I find that a lot of developers, especially those not using GUIs, end up using -m every single time and writing poor commit messages. With Magit, at least in my experience, you are more inclined to write better commits.
If you give developers a "lazy" option, a lot will default to it, which isn't ideal. -m is an alternative for a quick commit and end up being front and center when using the CLI.
- josteink 11y ago> With Magit, at least in my experience, you are more inclined to write better commits. I have flyspell-mode enabled for git-commit-mode. Avoids embarrassing typos in my git commit log. It's little stuff like this adding up, making Emacs too great to ever be without.
- PuercoPop 11y agoit is also harder from the CLI to stage granular changes (git add -p helps to a point).