| git-commit(1) |
| ============= |
| |
| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-commit - Record changes to the repository |
| |
| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| [verse] |
| 'git commit' [-a | --interactive | --patch] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend] |
| [--dry-run] [(-c | -C | --fixup | --squash) <commit>] |
| [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author] [--allow-empty] |
| [--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>] |
| [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] |
| [-i | -o] [-S[<keyid>]] [--] [<file>...] |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| Stores the current contents of the index in a new commit along |
| with a log message from the user describing the changes. |
| |
| The content to be added can be specified in several ways: |
| |
| 1. by using 'git add' to incrementally "add" changes to the |
| index before using the 'commit' command (Note: even modified |
| files must be "added"); |
| |
| 2. by using 'git rm' 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 (which must already |
| be known to Git); |
| |
| 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; |
| |
| 5. by using the --interactive or --patch switches with the 'commit' command |
| to decide one by one which files or hunks should be part of the commit, |
| before finalizing the operation. See the ``Interactive Mode'' section of |
| linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate these modes. |
| |
| The `--dry-run` option 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 (options and paths). |
| |
| If you make a commit and then find a mistake immediately after |
| that, you can recover from it with 'git reset'. |
| |
| |
| OPTIONS |
| ------- |
| -a:: |
| --all:: |
| Tell the command to automatically stage files that have |
| been modified and deleted, but new files you have not |
| told Git about are not affected. |
| |
| -p:: |
| --patch:: |
| Use the interactive patch selection interface to chose |
| which changes to commit. See linkgit:git-add[1] for |
| details. |
| |
| -C <commit>:: |
| --reuse-message=<commit>:: |
| Take an existing commit object, and reuse the log message |
| and the authorship information (including the timestamp) |
| when creating the commit. |
| |
| -c <commit>:: |
| --reedit-message=<commit>:: |
| Like '-C', but with '-c' the editor is invoked, so that |
| the user can further edit the commit message. |
| |
| --fixup=<commit>:: |
| Construct a commit message for use with `rebase --autosquash`. |
| The commit message will be the subject line from the specified |
| commit with a prefix of "fixup! ". See linkgit:git-rebase[1] |
| for details. |
| |
| --squash=<commit>:: |
| Construct a commit message for use with `rebase --autosquash`. |
| The commit message subject line is taken from the specified |
| commit with a prefix of "squash! ". Can be used with additional |
| commit message options (`-m`/`-c`/`-C`/`-F`). See |
| linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details. |
| |
| --reset-author:: |
| When used with -C/-c/--amend options, or when committing after a |
| a conflicting cherry-pick, declare that the authorship of the |
| resulting commit now belongs of the committer. This also renews |
| the author timestamp. |
| |
| --short:: |
| When doing a dry-run, give the output in the short-format. See |
| linkgit:git-status[1] for details. Implies `--dry-run`. |
| |
| --branch:: |
| Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format. |
| |
| --porcelain:: |
| When doing a dry-run, give the output in a porcelain-ready |
| format. See linkgit:git-status[1] for details. Implies |
| `--dry-run`. |
| |
| --long:: |
| When doing a dry-run, give the output in a the long-format. |
| Implies `--dry-run`. |
| |
| -z:: |
| --null:: |
| When showing `short` or `porcelain` status output, terminate |
| entries in the status output with NUL, instead of LF. If no |
| format is given, implies the `--porcelain` output format. |
| |
| -F <file>:: |
| --file=<file>:: |
| Take the commit message from the given file. Use '-' to |
| read the message from the standard input. |
| |
| --author=<author>:: |
| Override the commit author. Specify an explicit author using the |
| standard `A U Thor <author@example.com>` format. Otherwise <author> |
| is assumed to be a pattern and is used to search for an existing |
| commit by that author (i.e. rev-list --all -i --author=<author>); |
| the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found. |
| |
| --date=<date>:: |
| Override the author date used in the commit. |
| |
| -m <msg>:: |
| --message=<msg>:: |
| Use the given <msg> as the commit message. |
| |
| -t <file>:: |
| --template=<file>:: |
| When editing the commit message, start the editor with the |
| contents in the given file. The `commit.template` configuration |
| variable is often used to give this option implicitly to the |
| command. This mechanism can be used by projects that want to |
| guide participants with some hints on what to write in the message |
| in what order. If the user exits the editor without editing the |
| message, the commit is aborted. This has no effect when a message |
| is given by other means, e.g. with the `-m` or `-F` options. |
| |
| -s:: |
| --signoff:: |
| Add Signed-off-by line by the committer at the end of the commit |
| log message. |
| |
| -n:: |
| --no-verify:: |
| This option bypasses the pre-commit and commit-msg hooks. |
| See also linkgit:githooks[5]. |
| |
| --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. |
| |
| --allow-empty-message:: |
| Like --allow-empty this command is primarily for use by foreign |
| SCM interface scripts. It allows you to create a commit with an |
| empty commit message without using plumbing commands like |
| linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. |
| |
| --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. The default |
| can be changed by the 'commit.cleanup' configuration variable |
| (see linkgit:git-config[1]). |
| |
| -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. |
| |
| --no-edit:: |
| Use the selected commit message without launching an editor. |
| For example, `git commit --amend --no-edit` amends a commit |
| without changing its commit message. |
| |
| --amend:: |
| Used to amend the tip of the current branch. Prepare the tree |
| object you would want to replace the latest commit as usual |
| (this includes the usual -i/-o and explicit paths), and the |
| commit log editor is seeded with the commit message from the |
| tip of the current branch. The commit you create replaces the |
| current tip -- if it was a merge, it will have the parents of |
| the current tip as parents -- so the current top commit is |
| discarded. |
| + |
| -- |
| It is a rough equivalent for: |
| ------ |
| $ git reset --soft HEAD^ |
| $ ... do something else to come up with the right tree ... |
| $ git commit -c ORIG_HEAD |
| |
| ------ |
| but can be used to amend a merge commit. |
| -- |
| + |
| You should understand the implications of rewriting history if you |
| amend a commit that has already been published. (See the "RECOVERING |
| FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1].) |
| |
| --no-post-rewrite:: |
| Bypass the post-rewrite hook. |
| |
| -i:: |
| --include:: |
| Before making a commit out of staged contents so far, |
| stage the contents of paths given on the command line |
| 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 to be specified, which can be used to amend |
| the last commit without committing changes that have |
| already been staged. |
| |
| -u[<mode>]:: |
| --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: |
| Show untracked files. |
| + |
| The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to |
| specify the handling of untracked files; when -u is not used, the |
| default is 'normal', i.e. show untracked files and directories. |
| + |
| The possible options are: |
| + |
| - 'no' - Show no untracked files |
| - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories |
| - 'all' - Also shows individual files in untracked directories. |
| + |
| The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles |
| configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. |
| |
| -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:: |
| Suppress commit summary message. |
| |
| --dry-run:: |
| Do not create a commit, but show a list of paths that are |
| to be committed, paths with local changes that will be left |
| uncommitted and paths that are untracked. |
| |
| --status:: |
| Include the output of linkgit:git-status[1] in the commit |
| message template when using an editor to prepare the commit |
| message. Defaults to on, but can be used to override |
| configuration variable commit.status. |
| |
| --no-status:: |
| Do not include the output of linkgit:git-status[1] in the |
| commit message template when using an editor to prepare the |
| default commit message. |
| |
| -S[<keyid>]:: |
| --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: |
| GPG-sign commit. |
| |
| \--:: |
| Do not interpret any more arguments as options. |
| |
| <file>...:: |
| When files are given on the command line, the command |
| commits the contents of the named files, without |
| recording the changes already staged. The contents of |
| these files are also staged for the next commit on top |
| of what have been staged before. |
| |
| :git-commit: 1 |
| include::date-formats.txt[] |
| |
| EXAMPLES |
| -------- |
| 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 'git add'. 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: |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ edit hello.c |
| $ git rm goodbye.c |
| $ git add hello.c |
| $ git commit |
| ------------ |
| |
| 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 |
| your working tree and do corresponding `git add` and `git rm` |
| for you. That is, this example does the same as the earlier |
| example if there is no other change in your working tree: |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ edit hello.c |
| $ rm goodbye.c |
| $ git commit -a |
| ------------ |
| |
| The command `git commit -a` first looks at your working tree, |
| notices that you have modified hello.c and removed goodbye.c, |
| and performs necessary `git add` and `git rm` for you. |
| |
| After staging changes to many files, you can alter the order the |
| changes are recorded in, by giving pathnames to `git commit`. |
| When pathnames are given, the command makes a commit that |
| only records the changes made to the named paths: |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ edit hello.c hello.h |
| $ git add hello.c hello.h |
| $ edit Makefile |
| $ git commit Makefile |
| ------------ |
| |
| This makes a commit that records the modification to `Makefile`. |
| The changes staged for `hello.c` and `hello.h` are not included |
| in the resulting commit. However, their changes are not lost -- |
| they are still staged and merely held back. After the above |
| sequence, if you do: |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ git commit |
| ------------ |
| |
| this second commit would record the changes to `hello.c` and |
| `hello.h` as expected. |
| |
| After a merge (initiated by 'git merge' or 'git pull') 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 'git status' |
| and after fixing them manually in your working tree, you would |
| stage the result as usual with 'git add': |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ git status | grep unmerged |
| unmerged: hello.c |
| $ edit hello.c |
| $ git add hello.c |
| ------------ |
| |
| After resolving conflicts and staging the result, `git ls-files -u` |
| would stop mentioning the conflicted path. When you are done, |
| run `git commit` to finally record the merge: |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ git commit |
| ------------ |
| |
| As with the case to record your own changes, you can use `-a` |
| option to save typing. One difference is that during a merge |
| resolution, you cannot use `git commit` with pathnames to |
| alter the order the changes are committed, because the merge |
| should be recorded as a single commit. In fact, the command |
| refuses to run when given pathnames (but see `-i` option). |
| |
| |
| 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. |
| The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated |
| as the commit title, and that title is used throughout Git. |
| For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a commit into email, and it uses |
| the title 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). See linkgit:git-var[1] for details. |
| |
| HOOKS |
| ----- |
| 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 |
| -------- |
| linkgit:git-add[1], |
| linkgit:git-rm[1], |
| linkgit:git-mv[1], |
| linkgit:git-merge[1], |
| linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] |
| |
| GIT |
| --- |
| Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |