Git commits should include an empty line between title and description

Hello @carloscuesta!

Git commits should have an empty line between the title and the description but currently, there’s none:

📝 Add Readme
This readme bla bla #1

should look like

📝 Add Readme

This readme bla bla #1

[tom-rb]

I know it’s a dated discussion, but google brought me here when searching about the commit blank line. I’ve found in the documentation a reference to it

Though not required, it’s a good idea to begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.

[posva]

That blank line allows to clearly separate the title of the commit from the summary. I couldn’t find an official reference for this but it’s a some kind of standard. For instance when writing the commit with vim, it’ll automatically break every 80 characters and highlight the background in red the second line to tell you you shouldn’t write anything there. A project using this is the erlang repo. On Google there’re many posts saying that but I couldn’t find something from git. Maybe I read it on a book

On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, 11:09 Carlos Cuesta, [e-mail] wrote:

What’s the point about having an empty line between the commit title and the description? @posva https://github.com/posva

I’m not sure but, I think that we don’t need a break line. With two or more -m option lines are concatenated as separate paragraphs.

git commit -m “Commit title” -m “Commit message”

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