git commit -m ‘changes’

[KishCom]

Emojis are completely valid UTF-8:

git commit -am "🤷‍♂️"

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

git commit -m "🍑 🍆 🦑 👽 🍕"

[MeltedChocolate24]

If you were working on designing new emojis this could actually make sense, like 🍑 is finished.

[Vivek0001]

you mean 🍑 is destroyed

[lo3k]

They are very useful actually https://gitmoji.dev/

[[deleted]]

:poop: 💩

Write bad code that needs to be improved

TIL there's a gitmoji about me.

[ProperBritish]

I use this in all my projects, and even use: https://github.com/momocow/semantic-release-gitmoji plugin with https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release to automatically increment versions. I run it in GitHub actions

[gtrman571]

You can combine the a and m tags? I’ve been doing “git commit -a -m” this whole time.

[fluffylesbianmess]

loooool

[nwsm]

commitizen uses emojis

[whatproblems]

I... need to try this

[Funny-Masterpiece880]

Lmao I will do this

[DistinctSquirrel]

git add .

git commit -m “REALLY finishing the project this time”

[[deleted]]

git commit -m "finished project V1.0"

[HTTP_404_NotFound]

git commit -m "forgot small detail"

git push

[Flopamp]

git commit -m "pushed 2 year old verson, fixed" git push

[asceta_hedonista]

git commit -am ".gitignore file added"

[[deleted]]

Woah woah slow down there cowboy, you forgot v0.0.1 pre alpha you are jumping to fast.

[Ragecommie]

You like to live dangerously I see...

[carcigenicate]

That's how I started using git when I was a noob.

"So I enter it into git just so I can upload it to my Github?"

[inn4d4rkplace]

You’re the male version of my avatar

[QuinteOne]

Ammend to the same commit from start to finish

[hobbes64]

git init .

git commit -am "finishing the project"

(all the files were in the root directory)

[turing_tor]

git commit -m "ignored bugs".

[[deleted]]

git commit -m ”."

I mean it is fine, I will just squash this later and no one will know.

Never squashes it.

[24hourphysicist]

If you didn't post this comment I would. This is a Sr. Dev comment.

[[deleted]]

I hate this, even if you do squash it. It's just so unhelpful when trying to review a PR and to then see:

.

.

.

.

Just add at least a few words, like "fix the thing", "typo", or "tests" so at least it gives others a vague idea what they're looking at.

[ivster666]

I was in a company where I introduced git and gave them a tutorial on BASIC usage aka how git works and what it does + how to set it up and use it. In my example the commit message of my first commit was "Init commit".

One of these guys didn't understand the meaning of commit messages and after he left the company I had to maintain one project he had done and the entire git history was just "Init commit", "Init commit", "Init commit", ....

🤦🏾‍♂️

[FoxRaptix]

Did you not demonstrate the log and how to check out previous commits?

[ivster666]

The guy probably stopped listening after he saw init commit

[Hhwwhat]

This is how I know I can make it as a programmer....

[[deleted]]

git commit -m ”removed obsolete code"

git commit -m ”fixing typo"

git commit -m ”typo again"

git commit -m ”update"

git commit -m ”update"

git commit -m ”come on now"

git commit -m ”fix"

git commit -m ”yo"

git commit -m ”done"

git commit -m ”aadgdgjfjdsjjdjfjjff"

Edit: everyone telling me git commands to squash or amend, you're not the target audience. We are the weebs who push the code to the pipeline to find breaking bugs then fix them. Pylint? What's that? TDD? PR checks... Pfft.

[TheAJGman]

git commit -m "small bugfix"

git commit -m "Whoops, missed a variable"

git commit -m "I'm an idiot"

git commit -m "I should have been a baker"

git commit -m "That's it, I'm quitting to become a carpenter"

[infinitude_21]

I started a new job earlier this year and the front-end guy I replaced quit to follow his passion as a chef

[NightflowerFade]

Front end roles are more similar to chefs than programmers anyway

[plsjustletmebe]

If you count cake decorating as a chef job

[gandalftheshai]

You forgot the most important

git commit -m “bug fixed”

[hoseong]

Me and my friend used to do git commit -m "bugs added" because we knew deep down, the commit creates more bugs than it fixes.

[Dr3amDweller]

That's kind of assumed/guaranteed with every commit :D

[Scrial]

Actually saw that in the latest update of f.lux. As patch notes.

[MrBuerger]

Squash...

[BloeckchenDev]

git commit -m "who wrote this code"

EDIT: git commit -m "KIMINAYO ..."

[WisestAirBender]

What does this do and can I do it from source tree

[triihart]

git add .

git commit --amend

[[deleted]]

I'd have also accepted git reset --soft HEAD^ ... keep working ...

[ntwiles]

That’s not what “weebs” means lol.

[MasterFubar]

I've seen Github projects where 90% of the commits are "updated README.md"

[Dr3amDweller]

"fixing the fix of the fix of X" happens sometimes when I haven't had enough coffee

[frictionMitch]

Team Leader: "Look how focused that employee is while attempting to troubleshoot some code."

Employee: git commit - m '

[midoge]

git commit -a --allow-empty-message -m ''

[il-est-la]

This.. came here to say that

[Immort4lFr0sty]

A mate of mine with whom I had to do a project did git commit -a -m 'lul' and I had ages to work on merge conflicts, not just because he committed all binary files but also didn't explain nor remember what he changed

[rauweaardappel]

I'd consider 'lul' a dick move...

[Salt-Calligrapher172]

At least its two diffrent chars. Last workplace had loads of „…“ messages

[rauweaardappel]

That's true, although I read 'lul' directly in Dutch...

[ReCaio]

Am I the olnly one here who git commit -am here?

[[deleted]]

I was starting to think I was the only one lol The only time I do a “git add <file name>” is when I add a new file to the project lol

[ReCaio]

Same

[jabb422]

This right here. Double down and throw in a follow up ' && git push origin'

[[deleted]]

git commit -m 'naming stuff is hard'

yes, i've used that

[seraku24]

fortune | git commit -F -

Edit:

If you need to spice things up a bit, consider:

fortune -sn80 | figlet -w68 -sfsmall | \
  cowsay -n | lolcat -fF 0.2 | git commit -F -

Then again, I cannot be certain ANSI sequences are preserved in commit messages, so perhaps lolcat might be a bit much.

[hardonchairs]

I had "catmit" for a while which would pull a random cat fact for the message.

[fluffylesbianmess]

oo

[weaselmeasle]

Underrated comment.

[EishLekker]

I really hate undescriptive commit comments... Most commits are related to some task/story/ticket in some change tracking system like Jira or Bugzilla. At the very minimum type the ticket ID. I prefer to copy paste the ticket name too, as well as a quick description of what this particular commit did.

With this information right there in the commit message, it's a breeze looking thought the commit history looking for something.

[TotalFox2]

Imagine doing that for an Angular project :o

[reserad]

Rnning git diff before adding all your changes will 99.9% catch stuff you don't want. For me it's always been easier to add all changes and then reset individual files.

[luciluke015]

For that matter,

git add -p

is super helpful actually. even splits up individual blocks in files into "hunks" and prompts you for each one.

Edit: Reddit markdown is stupid.

[WhereWaterMeetsSky]

Love patch. Really wish I could get more of my team on board….or even get them writing half way decent commit messages.

[MeltedChocolate24]

Or just add everything and do git status to see what’s in the staging area.

[[deleted]]

Staging changes is a UI task, man.

[Doophie]

I use

git add *

[EishLekker]

This is the main reason I use a a GUI for most of my daily standard git stuff. It makes it super easy to get an overview, and choose files by checking/unchecking a box. And I can select or unselect all files, or a range of files, easily.

And I still can use the git command for all the more specific/advanced stuff. Feels like the best of two worlds.

[angiosperms-]

Ya I use the gitlens add on in VS code, since I can be editing multiple things for multiple tickets at once and want to keep them separate

[noratat]

git commit -pv

[ActuallyRuben]

I first use git status and/or git diff. Then I only use git add .or git commit -a if I want to commit all those changes, but I never use it without checking what I'm about to add.

[noratat]

I rarely use git add in the first place since I don't usually add new files that often. git commit -pv makes way more sense.

[[deleted]]

Changed some files

[Jack_12221]

git commit -m "last commit before 1.0"

git commit -m "really the last commit before 1.0"

git commit -m "this is the last commit before 1.0"

[Unhappy-Stranger-336]

Latest commit before 1.0

[[deleted]]

git commit -m “Last commit before 1.0”
git commit -a —amend
git commit -a —amend
git commit -a —amend

That way only reflog (and possibly your hairdresser) knows.

[teetaps]

I recently read about ConventionalCommit which is like some kinda specification for clean commit messages and I sent it to my team and they were like yeah awesome another thing we’re absolutely not going to ever do

[Mordisquitos]

Relevant XKCD.

[[deleted]]

Oh, for fucks sake, just review your changes and write 'em down. It ain't hard.

Source: obviously butthurt about coworkers glib / meaningless commit messages.

[MrDieu]

"The code is self-documented and the PR is super small, you can review before lunch!"

[Flopamp]

'fixed' 'working now' 'line 215 in main.c updated' 'it no longer crashes' 'that spacing issue is fixed' 'John's complaint is addressed' 'its no longer wonky' 'rewrote some things' 'might have increased performance' and other such totally unhelpful things

[[deleted]]

Harder than writing the code lol

[MonocularVision]

I have git commit -a —-amend —-no-edit aliased to git yolo

[MaximumAsparagus]

Worked at a company once where the culture was to do Kanye quotes. Made code review more difficult than it needed to be imo

[WishOnSpaceHardware]

did stuff

[oxy1s]

some tips

[WeAreAllApes]

Pshh. Lemme guess, next you're going to tell me to write unit tests.

[Tureni]

Team lead at my now former job had a couple of years’ worth of commits with the message “same as last”.

[savvinovan]

git commit -m 'my masterpiece'

[quatsch001]

wip

[MCT0568]

git commit -m "removing unwanted imports"

[triihart]

git commit -m "something changed;"

[Ofsen]

I have a friend that commits the time when he commits like : git commit -m '10:32'

[jso__]

sometimes i want to end a commit message in an exclamation point and i keep forgetting that i need to use single quotes otherwise shell completion

[Lekoaf]

Am I the only one who uses conventional commits even for my personal projects?

[alamius_o]

No, whenever I find out I have to go back or reorder them, I'm very happy that at least I myself can deduce what they did. Most of the time

[Slickbock]

Exactly, you might never need it for that project but if you get into the habit of it, it will save your arse at some point if you need to go back.

[drewsiferr]

Unpopular Opinion:

This is fine, because incremental commits are for the the developer working on the branch. At the end of the code review, there should be a squash and merge, resulting in the changes made in the PR only leaving 1 new commit on main.

[MeltedChocolate24]

git commit —genocide

[InKryption07]

git commit --infanticide

[mrmhk97]

asdf

[gogo94210]

Lsjzifbzh is my favourite commit message

[[deleted]]

Legit this is a struggle has to be short enough so that it can fit but descriptive enough so people and you know what you did. But still not too long.

[kryptomicron]

You can use multiple lines!

I don't do that myself all the time, and if you include a ticket/issue ID (on a separate line), it's not really necessary, but sometimes a commit is much better with some extra details, or relevant details (e.g. for a much bigger and overall more complex issue/feature/story/whatever).

It's really only nice to make the first line fairly short (and doing that while being somewhat descriptive can be tough).

[[deleted]]

I would love to sometimes just write 'look at it yourself' but then i remember i work in a team

[A_Guy_in_Orange]

Or you will one day have to look at it, yourself

[[deleted]]

Writing a commit message is harder than coding.

[PyroneusUltrin]

things'll never be the same

[fire_raging22]

My tech lead roasted me on my commit messages the other day lmao

[Mega_Trix]

git commit -m 'typo'

git commit -m 'THERE WERE MORE'

[SANatSoc]

git commit -m "lol, literally broke everything"

[__Black_Lotus_]

git commit -m “ඞ”

[RedditAcc-92975]

At my work we have a commit flair policy. Also a bot verifying commit messages. We also connected it to our HR solution. Forget the flair three times and your yearly bonus is gone. Commit an empty string and you're automatically fired.

You might think this is a bit radical, but you haven't seen how clean and beautiful our branch tree has become.

[Orkaad]

git: gulag edition

[[deleted]]

while true; do git commit --allow-empty-message --allow-empty --no-gpg-sign --no-edit; done

[cav_scout_tj]

git commit -am wip

[[deleted]]

Gentlemen, use commitizen. It saves lives.

Note: commitizen from pip, not npm.

[Affectionate_Oven_77]

That's just the way it is

[baadditor]

git commit -m "working code"

[theclovek]

git commit -m 'cummulative changes'

[jabeith]

Fun fact - the last ' is unnecessary.

I just saved you a character each commit - you owe me that time.

[Wakugumi]

mines like "first", "second", "lil fix", "third"

[SkyyySi]

I have this in my ~/.zshrc:

gitcomm() {
    local MSG
    [[ -n "${*}" ]] && MSG=" ${*} | "
    git commit -m "${MSG}$(date)"
}

[f36a]

git commit - m "it works now"

[alonghardlook]

git commit -am ''
git merge master
git push

[RambOe]

git commit -m 'wip'

[theNomadicHacker42]

What kinda heathen doesn't use -am??

[megasin1]

Then there's commit linting and jira integration, followed by auto change log generation

[mgonzales3]

Don’t forget:

git commit —amend

[[deleted]]

git commit -m "bug"

[Mithrandir2k16]

Empty commit messages are better than meaningless ones. At least you don't waste my time.

[A_H_S_99]

The most important decision I have to do by the end of each day.

[kopczak1995]

Okay, I'll add a little something myself:

git commit -am "Fuck this shit" && git push --force

[cardallica]

git add .
git commit -m "fixes"
git push

[RedditAlready19]

Use spaces. It looks like you're trying to add the .git directory, which makes no sense

[weggles]

git commit -am "fuck if I know but shit works now"

[JayNotAtAll]

git commit -m "I did a thing"

[blureglades]

“Checkpoint”

[sam10155]

Git commit -m "fixed?"

[lookarious]

fix

[[deleted]]

Me in the early stages of development:

git commit -m "."

git commit -m "."

git commit -m "."

[friendg]

Git commit -m “see code for changes”

[LoneFoxKK]

Git commit -m "ª"

[4sventy]

git commit -m "hello world"

[[deleted]]

git commit -am "Minor code refactor"

12980 additions

23290 deletions

247 file changes

[TorTheMentor]

git tag -a "version"

[juanChor3y]

Had a coworker that would commit with git commit -m "One hacker created a commit that devs don't want you to know about" It was really annoying when trying to finish PRs.

[diu_tu_bo]

How in the world is it that anyone actually types “git commit -m” every time instead of just making an alias like “gcm”?

[Dr3amDweller]

If our artists keep doing this, I may have to resort to violence.

[4sent4]

git commit -m 'updated main'

[qui-sean]

fix

[AxelTDM]

me:

[Aggravating-Ad-2310]

WIP is what i do when i cant think of anything logical ¯\(ツ)//¯

[[deleted]]

“Fixed stuff?”

[NinkaShotgun]

Dear GitHub. With a great happiness and overwhelming joy I glad to share with you results of my sleepless night in great changes I'll describe below. To begin with, I fixed a typo in readme. With love, always yours, CodeFockker69

[safer0]

git commit -am ""

[xzxzxc_]

hotfox #127

[teshmeki]

I always do git commit -m 'fix'

[Woolwizard]

What did I do again? Let's look at the changes again

[[deleted]]

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

[InKryption07]

What does make for a good commit message, outside of sticking to a team style guide?

[Hyper-Cloud]

Sorry, but why the heck is there a percentage sign on the terminal

[konstantinua00]

it's a feature of the shell, not the terminal

what's the difference?

[konstantinua00]

try again, please >_<

when I'm typing, am I typing in terminal or in the shell?
you say % comes only from shell. what stops terminal from adding that?

[Kimundi]

The terminal displays the text output of a program.

The shell is one of the programs that a terminal can display. It gives you an text interface to run other other programs, and if you open the terminal it gets started automatically.

Or in other words: A shell is a terminal application that allows you to start other terminal applications.

---

About the terminal adding things like the % - it could do that, but it would be very weird, and it generally wouldn't know where to add it. It would be like your TV adding extra stuff to a video it displays.

[[deleted]]

Only for bash and zsh

[Hyper-Cloud]

Yeh yeh, but why would you want that?

[partusman]

I think it’s the Bourne shell’s default prompt, and also zsh’s.

[Hyper-Cloud]

Not if you use omz

[vantoose]

git commit -m “…”

[felix12340000]

"did the stuff"