Today I learned

Multiline commit messages

Edit this Post Opens in new tab

Stefan Judis showed in a recent tweet how to write multiline git commit messages.

Instead of writing one very looong commit message:

git commit -m 'this is a very long commit message where I describe all the work I did and guess what it is a lot and this should be just a short description'

You can use the css>-m flag multiple times. For every usage of it, a new line is added.

git commit -m 'at first I did this' -m 'I also did this' -m 'oh and dont forget that'

That's such a cool git feature I always needed but never knew how to do it!

Comes in really handy when you did several things in one commit and makes the commit history much more readable. I use it all the time now!


I hope you enjoyed this post and learned something new. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter Opens in new tab or via Email Opens in new tab.

If you want to support me, you can buy me a coffee. I would be very happy about it!

☕️ Buy me a coffee ☕️

I wish you a wonderful day! Marco