Thanks. I wasn't aware of --no-edit, but that is indeed exactly what I was looking for. I think your point about encouraging users to make good use of commit messages is good. My concern though is that vim isn't encouraging users to leave good messages as much as it is scaring them away from leaving messages at all. On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John Rood <mr.john.rood@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [administrivia: do not top post] > >> What I'm really seeking is not a make-shift solution for myself, but >> an intuitive solution for the novice user-base at large. > > Well, there are -m and --no-edit. Recording commits with useless > single liner is a bad habit to get into, and change to encourage > novice user-base at large to do so is not a good idea.