Git commit message pane empty, where is default template?

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Whenever I commit command line, I get a default comment in my editor. Like so:


# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
# On branch my-branch-name
# Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/my-branch-name'.
#
# Changes to be committed:
# modified: somefile.py
#
# Changes not staged for commit:
# modified: someotherfile.py
#
# Untracked files:
# somethingelse.txt
#

I add my message at the top.

In PyCharm my commit message pane is empty, I do not get the above default. I would very much like to see it, how can I accomplish that?

 

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Anna Morozova
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Please vote for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-66355 to increase its priority and be notified about updates.

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This is not the same thing, but likely related. Check out this explanation: http://stackoverflow.com/a/34859567/5366881 by user torek. I printed the text below. I am specifically talking about step 3. Printing this message, or not printing it, is a separate operation from using or not using a commit template. So I added my vote with a note about this.

 

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You seem to be mixing up the commit.template option (which provides a default value for the --template option to git commit) with the prepare-commit-message hook.

Normally git commit uses the following sequence of operations:

  1. Run the pre-commit hook, if it exists and is runnable. If it exits non-zero, abort the commit.
  2. Copy any specified or configured template (see below) to a temporary file. If there is no template or the template path is not readable, begin with an empty temporary file.
  3. Add the lines # Please enter the commit message ... and the output of git status.
  4. Run the prepare-commit-message hook, if it exists and is runnable, on the temporary file.
  5. Open up your editor on the temporary file. (Your editor is set from $GIT_EDITOR, the core.editor configuration, $VISUAL, $EDITOR, or a built-in default, whichever is the first one set.)
  6. Once you exit your editor, make the commit, or stop the commit, depending on whether you have provided a commit message.

If you use the -f or -m options, steps 2, 3, and 5 are normally skipped (though you can force git to open your editor by adding --edit). Presumably you have not used those options.

What the --template option does—and hence what commit.template does—is to provides the path name of a file that git commit will copy in step 2. This does not affect lines added in step 3. While the path .git/hooks/prepare-commit-message is (probably) a file git can read, it's not a very sensible name for your template, since if that same path is made executable, the file will become runnable and step 4 will probably behave badly.

You can tell git commit not to do step 3 by adding --no-status. (Also, as a somewhat odd side effect, --no-edit, which explicitly suppresses step 5, also suppresses step 3.)

Or, you can make use of step 4 to eliminate some or all of the git status output and standard # Please enter... message. The prepare-commit-message hook can make arbitrary changes to the template file.

Note that --cleanup=<mode> affects what winds up in the final commit message, and also the processing of step 6. For details see the git commit documentation.

 

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