NAME
----
-git-commit - Record your changes
+git-commit - Record changes to the repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>]
- [--no-verify] [--amend] [-e] [--author <author>]
- [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
+'git-commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u]
+ [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg> | --amend]
+ [--allow-empty] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author <author>]
+ [--cleanup=<mode>] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Use 'git commit' when you want to record your changes into the repository
-along with a log message describing what the commit is about. All changes
-to be committed must be explicitly identified using one of the following
-methods:
+Use 'git commit' to store the current contents of the index in a new
+commit along with a log message describing the changes you have made.
-1. by using gitlink:git-add[1] to incrementally "add" changes to the
- next commit before using the 'commit' command (Note: even modified
+The content to be added can be specified in several ways:
+
+1. by using linkgit:git-add[1] to incrementally "add" changes to the
+ index before using the 'commit' command (Note: even modified
files must be "added");
-2. by using gitlink:git-rm[1] to identify content removal for the next
- commit, again before using the 'commit' command;
+2. by using linkgit:git-rm[1] to remove files from the working tree
+ and the index, again before using the 'commit' command;
+
+3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command, in which
+ case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and instead
+ record the current content of the listed files;
-3. by directly listing files containing changes to be committed as arguments
- to the 'commit' command, in which cases only those files alone will be
- considered for the commit;
+4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically
+ "add" changes from all known files (i.e. all files that are already
+ listed in the index) and to automatically "rm" files in the index
+ that have been removed from the working tree, and then perform the
+ actual commit;
-4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically "add"
- changes from all known files i.e. files that have already been committed
- before, and perform the actual commit.
+5. by using the --interactive switch with the 'commit' command to decide one
+ by one which files should be part of the commit, before finalizing the
+ operation. Currently, this is done by invoking `git-add --interactive`.
-The gitlink:git-status[1] command can be used to obtain a
+The linkgit:git-status[1] command can be used to obtain a
summary of what is included by any of the above for the next
commit by giving the same set of parameters you would give to
this command.
If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after
-that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1].
+that, you can recover from it with linkgit:git-reset[1].
OPTIONS
Override the author name used in the commit. Use
`A U Thor <author@example.com>` format.
--m <msg>::
+-m <msg>|--message=<msg>::
Use the given <msg> as the commit message.
+-t <file>|--template=<file>::
+ Use the contents of the given file as the initial version
+ of the commit message. The editor is invoked and you can
+ make subsequent changes. If a message is specified using
+ the `-m` or `-F` options, this option has no effect. This
+ overrides the `commit.template` configuration variable.
+
-s|--signoff::
Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
--no-verify::
- By default, the command looks for suspicious lines the
- commit introduces, and aborts committing if there is one.
- The definition of 'suspicious lines' is currently the
- lines that has trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose
- indentation has a SP character immediately followed by a
- TAB character. This option turns off the check.
+ This option bypasses the pre-commit and commit-msg hooks.
+ See also link:hooks.html[hooks].
+
+--allow-empty::
+ Usually recording a commit that has the exact same tree as its
+ sole parent commit is a mistake, and the command prevents you
+ from making such a commit. This option bypasses the safety, and
+ is primarily for use by foreign scm interface scripts.
+
+--cleanup=<mode>::
+ This option sets how the commit message is cleaned up.
+ The '<mode>' can be one of 'verbatim', 'whitespace', 'strip',
+ and 'default'. The 'default' mode will strip leading and
+ trailing empty lines and #commentary from the commit message
+ only if the message is to be edited. Otherwise only whitespace
+ removed. The 'verbatim' mode does not change message at all,
+ 'whitespace' removes just leading/trailing whitespace lines
+ and 'strip' removes both whitespace and commentary.
-e|--edit::
The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with
as well. This is usually not what you want unless you
are concluding a conflicted merge.
+-o|--only::
+ Make a commit only from the paths specified on the
+ command line, disregarding any contents that have been
+ staged so far. This is the default mode of operation of
+ 'git commit' if any paths are given on the command line,
+ in which case this option can be omitted.
+ If this option is specified together with '--amend', then
+ no paths need be specified, which can be used to amend
+ the last commit without committing changes that have
+ already been staged.
+
+-u|--untracked-files::
+ Show all untracked files, also those in uninteresting
+ directories, in the "Untracked files:" section of commit
+ message template. Without this option only its name and
+ a trailing slash are displayed for each untracked
+ directory.
+
+-v|--verbose::
+ Show unified diff between the HEAD commit and what
+ would be committed at the bottom of the commit message
+ template. Note that this diff output doesn't have its
+ lines prefixed with '#'.
+
-q|--quiet::
- Supress commit summary message.
+ Suppress commit summary message.
\--::
Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
--------
When recording your own work, the contents of modified files in
your working tree are temporarily stored to a staging area
-called the "index" with gitlink:git-add[1]. Removal
-of a file is staged with gitlink:git-rm[1]. After building the
-state to be committed incrementally with these commands, `git
-commit` (without any pathname parameter) is used to record what
+called the "index" with linkgit:git-add[1]. A file can be
+reverted back, only in the index but not in the working tree,
+to that of the last commit with `git-reset HEAD -- <file>`,
+which effectively reverts `git-add` and prevents the changes to
+this file from participating in the next commit. After building
+the state to be committed incrementally with these commands,
+`git commit` (without any pathname parameter) is used to record what
has been staged so far. This is the most basic form of the
command. An example:
$ git commit
------------
-////////////
-We should fix 'git rm' to remove goodbye.c from both index and
-working tree for the above example.
-////////////
-
Instead of staging files after each individual change, you can
tell `git commit` to notice the changes to the files whose
contents are tracked in
this second commit would record the changes to `hello.c` and
`hello.h` as expected.
-After a merge (initiated by either gitlink:git-merge[1] or
-gitlink:git-pull[1]) stops because of conflicts, cleanly merged
+After a merge (initiated by either linkgit:git-merge[1] or
+linkgit:git-pull[1]) stops because of conflicts, cleanly merged
paths are already staged to be committed for you, and paths that
conflicted are left in unmerged state. You would have to first
-check which paths are conflicting with gitlink:git-status[1]
+check which paths are conflicting with linkgit:git-status[1]
and after fixing them manually in your working tree, you would
-stage the result as usual with gitlink:git-add[1]:
+stage the result as usual with linkgit:git-add[1]:
------------
$ git status | grep unmerged
refuses to run when given pathnames (but see `-i` option).
-ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
----------------------
-The command specified by either the VISUAL or EDITOR environment
-variables is used to edit the commit log message.
+DISCUSSION
+----------
+
+Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message
+with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the
+change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.
+Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line
+on the Subject: line and the rest of the commit in the body.
+
+include::i18n.txt[]
+
+ENVIRONMENT AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
+---------------------------------------
+The editor used to edit the commit log message will be chosen from the
+GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the
+VISUAL environment variable, or the EDITOR environment variable (in that
+order).
HOOKS
-----
SEE ALSO
--------
-gitlink:git-add[1],
-gitlink:git-rm[1],
-gitlink:git-mv[1],
-gitlink:git-merge[1],
-gitlink:git-commit-tree[1]
+linkgit:git-add[1],
+linkgit:git-rm[1],
+linkgit:git-mv[1],
+linkgit:git-merge[1],
+linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]
Author
------
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite