How to commit a change with both message and description from the command line

Question

I m new to both git and GitHub  I managed to set up everything locally on my Mac  so that now I can push commits to GitHub via git  on the command line  not the Mac app    When I push commits directly from the GitHub web interface  e g  quickly fixing a typo   I have the chance to  comment  the commit  and GitHub gives me a commit title and a commit description  I find this very useful   Still  when I git push from the local machine  git opens my default editor  so I write the commit comment  and then GitHub automatically divides it into title and  body   Is there a way to pretty comment commits from terminal too

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git commit -a -m  Your commit message here    will quickly commit all changes with the commit message  Git commit  title  and  description   as you call them  are nothing more than just the first line  and the rest of the lines in the commit message  usually separated by a blank line  by convention  So using this command will just commit the  title  and no description   If you want to commit a longer message  you can do that  but it depends on which shell you use   In bash the quick way would be   git commit -a -m   Commit title n nRest of commit message

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In case you want to improve the commit message with header and body after you created the commit  you can reword it  This approach is more useful because you know what the code does only after you wrote it    git rebase -i origin master   Then  your commits will appear   pick e152ce2 Update framework pick ffcf91e Some magic pick fa672e1 Update comments   Select the commit you want to reword and save   pick e152ce2 Update framework reword ffcf91e Some magic pick fa672e1 Update comments   Now  you have the opportunity to add header and body  where the first line will be the header   Create perpetuum mobile  Redesign laws of physics with a pinch of imagination  Open a wormhole in 23 dimensions  Add protection to avoid high instability

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There is also another straight and more clear way  git commit -m  Title  -m  Description

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Use the git commit command without any flags  The configured editor will open  Vim in this case      To start typing press the INSERT key on your keyboard  then in insert mode create a better commit with description how do you want  For example     Once you have written all that you need  to returns to git  first you should exit insert mode  for that press ESC  Now close the Vim editor with save changes by typing on the keyboard  wq  w - write  q - quit      and press ENTER   On GitHub this commit will looks like this     As a commit editor you can use VS Code   git config --global core editor  code --wait    From VS Code docs website  VS Code as Git editor  Gif demonstration

[git] How to commit a change with both "message" and "description" from the command line?

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