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
54 The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with
55 `-m`, and from file with `-C` are usually used as the
56 commit log message unmodified. This option lets you
57 further edit the message taken from these sources.
60 Update specified paths in the index file before committing.
65 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
66 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
71 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite