====== 'git' Multiline Commit Messages ======

Actually, if you just enter the command **''git commit''**, an editor is opened where you can enter the commit message.

Alternatively, you can use the **''-m''** parameter to specify a commit header message at the command line, or even 
multiple **''-m''** parameters to add several paragraphs. However, this doesn't easily let you insert line breaks in
at specific positions of a paragraph.

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The following command can be used to "edit" a commit message on the command line, or in a script file:

<codedoc code>
git commit -F- ~~codedoc:clean:<<~~EOF
~~codedoc:<em>Header of the message</em>~~

~~codedoc:<em>Body of the message</em>~~
~~codedoc:<em>with preformatted line breaks.</em>~~
EOF
</codedoc>

This is also suitable to specify a message for an annotated tag.

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 --- //Martin Burnicki [[martin.burnicki@burnicki.net]], last updated 2022-08-10//