1git-commit(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-commit - Record your changes 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git-commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] 12 [-e] [--] <file>... 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Updates the index file for given paths, or all modified files if 17'-a' is specified, and makes a commit object. The command 18VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables to edit the commit log 19message. 20 21This command can run `commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and 22`post-commit` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more 23information. 24 25OPTIONS 26------- 27-a|--all:: 28 Update all paths in the index file. This flag notices 29 files that have been modified and deleted, but new files 30 you have not told about git are not affected. 31 32-c or -C <commit>:: 33 Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message 34 and the authorship information (including the timestamp) 35 when creating the commit. With '-C', the editor is not 36 invoked; with '-c' the user can further edit the commit 37 message. 38 39-F <file>:: 40 Take the commit message from the given file. Use '-' to 41 read the message from the standard input. 42 43-m <msg>:: 44 Use the given <msg> as the commit message. 45 46-s|--signoff:: 47 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. 48 49-v|--verify:: 50 Look for suspicious lines the commit introduces, and 51 abort committing if there is one. The definition of 52 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has 53 trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation 54 has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB 55 character. This is the default. 56 57-n|--no-verify:: 58 The opposite of `--verify`. 59 60-e|--edit:: 61 The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with 62 `-m`, and from file with `-C` are usually used as the 63 commit log message unmodified. This option lets you 64 further edit the message taken from these sources. 65 66--:: 67 Do not interpret any more arguments as options. 68 69<file>...:: 70 Update specified paths in the index file before committing. 71 72 73If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after 74that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1]. 75 76 77Author 78------ 79Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 80Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 81 82 83GIT 84--- 85Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite