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Kex
Kex

Reputation: 8589

Including a date or other variable in the git commit message

I need to include the date and time in all commit messages (this is for syncing with a project management tool). I currently have have the alias:

alias commitDate = "date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M"

Is there anyway to include this or any other variables in the commit message?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9034

Answers (2)

Constantin Konstantinidis
Constantin Konstantinidis

Reputation: 1515

Using an environment variable:

$ export COMMIT_TITLE=$(date)
$ git add commitfile.txt
$ git commit -m "$COMMIT_TITLE"
[master b5a9354] Sun, May 10, 2020  9:38:12 AM
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 commitfile.txt

Upvotes: 3

liketechnik
liketechnik

Reputation: 104

You can specify the commit message on the command line directly via -m option. So if you want to commit new changes you could type:

git commit -m "Your message" -m "`$commitDate`"

which would lead to following commit message, as your shell replaces the env var commitDate with its value:

Your message
*current date*

Upvotes: 6

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