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Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by macandcheese on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:02PM (#12384840)
Because when you're doing anything outside of git commit am- "whatever" it's nice to be able to see the complete implications of your actions, what files have been modified, what lines in those files have changed, etc.,
Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by rnicholson on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:18PM (#12386717)
git commit -v gives you the diffs provided you don't also use -m. Personally, I find -m to be a dangerous flag for commit for exactly the reasons you described not mention its hard to really do detailed multi-line commit messages with -m.