6 git-commit - Record your changes
11 'git-commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>]
16 Updates the index file for given paths, or all modified files if
17 '-a' is specified, and makes a commit object. The command
18 VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables to edit the commit log
21 This command can run `commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and
22 `post-commit` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more
28 Update all paths in the index file. This flag notices
29 files that have been modified and deleted, but new files
30 you have not told about git are not affected.
33 Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message
34 and the authorship information (including the timestamp)
35 when creating the commit. With '-C', the editor is not
36 invoked; with '-c' the user can further edit the commit
40 Take the commit message from the given file. Use '-' to
41 read the message from the standard input.
44 Use the given <msg> as the commit message.
47 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
50 Look for suspicious lines the commit introduces, and
51 abort committing if there is one. The definition of
52 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has
53 trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation
54 has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB
55 character. This is the default.
58 The opposite of `--verify`.
61 The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with
62 `-m`, and from file with `-C` are usually used as the
63 commit log message unmodified. This option lets you
64 further edit the message taken from these sources.
67 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
70 Update specified paths in the index file before committing.
73 If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after
74 that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1].
79 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
80 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
85 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite