git-commit - Record your changes

git-commit [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>]
           [-e] [--] <file>...

Updates the index file for given paths, or all modified files if -a is specified, and makes a commit object. The command VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables to edit the commit log message.

This command can run commit-msg, pre-commit, and post-commit hooks. See hooks: hooks.html for more information.

-a|--all

Update all paths in the index file. This flag notices files that have been modified and deleted, but new files you have not told about git are not affected.

-c or -C <commit>

Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message and the authorship information (including the timestamp) when creating the commit. With -C, the editor is not invoked; with -c the user can further edit the commit message.

-F <file>

Take the commit message from the given file. Use - to read the message from the standard input.

-m <msg>

Use the given <msg> as the commit message.

-s|--signoff

Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.

-v|--verify

Look for suspicious lines the commit introduces, and abort 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 is the default.

-n|--no-verify

The opposite of --verify.

-e|--edit

The message taken from file with -F, command line with -m, and from file with -C are usually used as the commit log message unmodified. This option lets you further edit the message taken from these sources.

--

Do not interpret any more arguments as options.

<file>...

Update specified paths in the index file before committing.

If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after that, you can recover from it with git-reset(1).

Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Part of the git(7) suite