Commit-editmsg | ((link))

This is excellent for developers who prefer to verify exactly what they are committing while writing the message.

Perhaps you want every commit to include a Co-authored-by: trailer. Your commit-msg hook could append it automatically: COMMIT-EDITMSG

Instead of constructing a massive string for git commit -m , you can write your message into .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG (or a temporary file) and run git commit -F <filename> . This is excellent for developers who prefer to