Git commit with no commit message

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How can I commit changes without specifying commit message  Why is it required by default

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git generally requires a non-empty message because providing a meaningful commit message is part of good development practice and good repository stewardship. The first line of the commit message is used all over the place within git; for more, read "A Note About Git Commit Messages".

If you open Terminal.app, cd to your project directory, and git commit -am '', you will see that it fails because an empty commit message is not allowed. Newer versions of git have the
--allow-empty-message commandline argument, including the version of git included with the latest version of Xcode. This will let you use this command to make a commit with an empty message:

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

Prior to the --allow-empty-message flag, you had to use the commit-tree plumbing command. You can see an example of using this command in the "Raw Git" chapter of the Git book.

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I found the simplest solution   git commit -am save    That s all you will work around git commit message stuff   you can even save that commend to a bash or other stuff to make it more simple   Our team members always write those messages but almost no one will see those message again   Commit message is a time-kill stuff at least in our team so we ignore it

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You don t need git to accomplish this  Creative use of a bash function will do the trick just fine  If you don t care about messages  just set a default one and forget it   function gitcom       git commit -m  my default commit message      If you were feeling really adventurous you could add  commit and push with one command  function gitzap       git add    amp  amp  git commit -m  whatevs   amp  amp  git push  1  2     Which you would then run as  gitzap origin master   You could even get deeper and use parse git branch to save yourself some keystrokes there  or set a common default of  origin  and  master

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And if you add an alias for it then it s even better right   git config --global alias nccommit  commit -a --allow-empty-message -m       Now you just do an nccommit  nc because of no comment  and everything should be commited

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I have the following config in my private project   git config alias auto  commit -a -m  changes made from  device name      That way  when I m in a hurry I do  git auto git push   And at least I know what device the commit was made from

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Git requires a commit to have a comment  otherwise it wont accept the commit    You can configure a default template with git as your default commit message or can look up the --allow-empty-message flag in git  I think  not 100  sure  you can reconfigure git to accept empty commit messages  which isn  t such a good idea   Normally each commit should be a bit of work which is described by your message

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Note  starting git1 8 3 2  July 2013   the following command  mentioned above by Jeremy W Sherman  won t open an editor anymore   git commit --allow-empty-message -m      See commit 25206778aac776fc6cc4887653fdae476c7a9b5a      If an empty message is specified with the option -m of git commit then the editor is started    That s unexpected and unnecessary    Instead of using the length of the message string for checking if the user specified one  directly remember if the option -m was given      git 2 9  June 2016  improves the empty message behavior   See commit 178e814  06 Apr 2016  by Adam Dinwoodie  me-and   See commit 27014cb  07 Apr 2016  by Jeff King  peff    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 0709261  22 Apr 2016        commit  do not ignore an empty message given by -m             git commit --amend -m    --allow-empty-message   even though it looks strange  is a valid request to amend the commit to have no message at all    Due to the misdetection of the presence of -m on the command line  we ended up keeping the log messsage from the original commit     git commit -m   msg  -F file  should be rejected whether  msg is an empty string or not  but due to the same bug  was not rejected when  msg is empty     git -c template file -m   msg   should ignore the template even when  msg is empty  but it didn t and instead used the contents from the template file

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The commit message is a best practice that should be followed at all times  Unless you re the only developer and that isn t going to change any time soon   git commit -a -m  asdfasdfadsfsdf

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--allow-empty-message -m     and -m  quot  quot   fail in Git 2 29 2 on PowerShell   error  switch  m  requires a value   oddly enough  with a backtick on one side and a single quote on the other   The following works consistently in Linux  PowerShell  and Command Prompt  git commit --allow-empty-message --no-edit  The --no-edit bit does the trick  as it prevents the editor from launching  I find this form more explicit and a bit less hacky than forcing an empty message with -m

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When working on an important code update  if you really need an intermediate safepoint you might just do   git commit -am      or shorter   git commit -am

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