Using Git commit message templates to write better commit messages

Re:Using Git commit message templates to write better commit... by kevincox on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:14AM (#29919420)

I prefer scissors.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit...

This way you can use basically anything at the start of the line (as long as the whole line isn't the scissors)

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Re:Using Git commit message templates to write better commit... by chrismorgan on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:15AM (#29920936)

The really funny thing here is that I’m used to seeing the scissors line because I set commit.verbose, but I’d been puzzling from time to time over what that >8 in the middle of the line was, and just a few hours ago I finally realised (prompted no doubt by dwelling on core.commentchar) that it was ASCII art scissors. >8 feels weird, even though it’s the direction a right-hander would cut paper; 8< feels more natural for some reason (maybe because LTR language?).

You’re quite right, scissors is better. TIL! I have now set my commit.cleanup to scissors. I could even drop core.commentchar and my gitcommit and gitrebase syntax and after/ftplugin/ patches.

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