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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-07-30 13:05:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-07-30 13:05:36 -0700 |
| commit | f17adbce64efe49dcbdd3b7d14dc8b3621b5e193 (patch) | |
| tree | acc4f92f0ba7a528ec0ba0afba3f5558921d4a6e /Documentation/git-commit.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/maint-advise-vaddf' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | commit: document the temporary commit message file (diff) | |
| download | tgif-f17adbce64efe49dcbdd3b7d14dc8b3621b5e193.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg' into maint
"$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
message user edits was not documented.
* jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg:
commit: document the temporary commit message file
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-commit.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 2d695f619c..81853e9646 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -399,6 +399,15 @@ This command can run `commit-msg`, `prepare-commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and `post-commit` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more information. +FILES +----- + +`$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 -------- |