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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-07-24 14:05:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-07-24 14:05:23 -0700 |
| commit | 9c3f19fdfd7b8d7fcbebf05d30a8a41054f89d32 (patch) | |
| tree | 484bd6aff615aeeb2c6b8de5e1e8d84fe0668563 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early' (diff) | |
| parent | commit: document the temporary commit message file (diff) | |
| download | tgif-9c3f19fdfd7b8d7fcbebf05d30a8a41054f89d32.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg'
Document $GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG file.
* jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg:
commit: document the temporary commit message file
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index f400835921..4622297ec9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -407,6 +407,15 @@ This command can run `commit-msg`, `prepare-commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and `post-commit` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more information. +FILES +----- + +`$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG`:: + This file contains the commit message of a commit in progress. + If `git commit` exits due to an error before creating a commit, + any commit message that has been provided by the user (e.g., in + an editor session) will be available in this file, but will be + overwritten by the next invocation of `git commit`. SEE ALSO -------- |