From 41f597d9bbac33a7e522c5f74b83e712ea2de13a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:13:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] commit: document the temporary commit message file We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want to know about it for two reasons: 1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself for formatting a commit message. 2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want to recover the commit message they typed. Let's put a note in git-commit(1). Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-commit.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) 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 -------- -- 2.11.4.GIT