git-commit-template

Write better commits by knowing when you're writing commit messages that are so long that GitHub will truncate them.

Steps:

1. Copy the contents .gitmessage file in this repository to a file on your machine (eg, at ~/.gitmessage).

   a. Are you sure you want to replace any existing ~/.gitmessage files? Check the existing contents by running the following command in your terminal: cat ~/.gitmessage

   b. If you're OK with creating (or overwriting an existing) ~/.gitmessage, run the following command in your terminal: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/therobinkim/git-commit-template/master/.gitmessage > ~/.gitmessage

2. Tell Git to use ~/.gitmessage as a template for all commit messages.

   a. Run the following command in your terminal: git config --global commit.template ~/.gitmessage

   b. You're done!

You can also enable this on a repository by repository basis by running the git config command from step 2a without the --global flag from any locally cloned git repository.

You can disable this global configuration by opening your ~/.gitconfig file in your favorite text editor and removing the commit.template line.