Commit-editmsg File

If you have ever typed git commit without the -m flag, you have interacted with this file. You might have thought you were just using a text editor to write a message. In reality, you were editing a temporary file named COMMIT-EDITMSG .

git commit --no-verify -m "Hotfix for production" Warning: Use sparingly. This is a nuclear bypass for emergency situations. It's easy to confuse COMMIT-EDITMSG with other .git files: COMMIT-EDITMSG

Using a prepare-commit-msg hook (a cousin that runs before the editor opens), you can read the branch name and append the ticket to COMMIT-EDITMSG : If you have ever typed git commit without

Now, if a developer tries to commit with a bad message, Git aborts. This doesn't just work for command-line commits; it works for GUI tools and IDEs because everything eventually writes to COMMIT-EDITMSG . Your project uses Jira (PROJ-123). You want every commit to include the ticket number, but you hate typing it. 30 seconds before you commit, you fetched the PROJ-123 branch. git commit --no-verify -m "Hotfix for production" Warning: