Hi, Avery Pennarun wrote: > Given these existing capabilities, is it still worth adding the > feature you propose? I think it might be, in some modified form. Suppose I am working on a medium-sized change that for reasons of bisectability or ontology has to be one commit. In the middle of working, I notice I needed to do something nonobvious. Currently when this happens, I get out a pad of paper and write it down, so I can be sure to mention it in the commit message. Wouldn’t it be nicer in such situations to be able to say git add --commit-message or similar, open an editor, and write the note right away? In other words, it would be nice to have a file in .git that is - cleared on successful commit - automatically used to fill COMMIT_EDITMSG, like MERGE_MSG is I suspect something like this can be achieved by the combination of the commit.template configuration variable and a post-commit hook to clear the file, but I haven’t tried it. Regards, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html