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