Add line break to 'git commit -m' from the command line
Certainly, how it's done depends on your shell. In Bash, you can use single quotes around the message and can just leave the quote open, which will make Bash prompt for another line, until you close the quote. Like this:
git commit -m 'Message
goes
here'
Alternatively, you can use a "here document" (also known as heredoc):
git commit -F- <<EOF
Message
goes
here
EOF
If you just want, say, a head line and a content line, you can use:
git commit -m "My head line" -m "My content line."
Note that this creates separate paragraphs - not lines. So there will be a blank line between each two -m
lines, e.g.:
My head line
My content line.