Re:Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow mu...
by masklinn on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:34AM
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In zsh (and bash I think) it opens the entire line in a buffer, making it easy to edit it in ways which wouldn't really work well at the shell.
> beyond that I find that editing long freeform text on the command line gets annoying fast if only because of the careful escaping you have to do, especially for nested quotes.
Oh I agree. Here I'd suggest it for the rare case where I was expecting to write a simple commit message and end up needing a much longer one, though usually I'd just create the commit and immediately "amend" into a proper text editor (and most of the time I use a text editor directly, because rare are the commits where the short desc is sufficient).
> beyond that I find that editing long freeform text on the command line gets annoying fast if only because of the careful escaping you have to do, especially for nested quotes.
Oh I agree. Here I'd suggest it for the rare case where I was expecting to write a simple commit message and end up needing a much longer one, though usually I'd just create the commit and immediately "amend" into a proper text editor (and most of the time I use a text editor directly, because rare are the commits where the short desc is sufficient).