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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tomas <correo@tomaszubiri.com>
Cc: "git" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: commiting a change from command line with newlines.
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:54:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk0zlb3ma.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17312e90c37.fefa495d137526.1559287962218705021@tomaszubiri.com> (Tomas's message of "Fri, 03 Jul 2020 01:22:09 -0300")

Tomas <correo@tomaszubiri.com> writes:

> I'm trying to write stanzas in my commit message, and naturally
> the ASCII newline character is the best tool for this, beautifully
> integrated throughout my whole system, from my keyboard to my
> screen.
>
> My question is, how can I add a newline from the git command line
> without opening an external program like vi, atom, notepad, word
> etc...

Just like you pass any command an argument that has newline(s) in
it, e.g.

    $ git commit -s -m 'area: teach gostak to distim doshes[ENTER]
    > [ENTER]
    > Gostaks inherently want to distim doshes, so let them do so[ENTER]
    > freely.' -a[ENTER]

you can give such a string to "git commit" as an argument to its
"-m" option.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-03  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-03  4:22 commiting a change from command line with newlines Tomas
2020-07-03  4:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-07-03  4:55 ` brian m. carlson
2020-07-03  5:14 ` Kevin Daudt

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