6 git-commit - Record your changes
10 'git-commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] [-e] [--] <file>...
14 Updates the index file for given paths, or all modified files if
15 '-a' is specified, and makes a commit object. The command
16 VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables to edit the commit log
19 This command can run `commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and
20 `post-commit` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more
26 Update all paths in the index file.
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
36 Take the commit message from the given file. Use '-' to
37 read the message from the standard input.
40 Use the given <msg> as the commit message.
43 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
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.
54 The opposite of `--verify`.
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.
63 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
66 Update specified paths in the index file before committing.
69 If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after
70 that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1].
75 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
76 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
81 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite