Find and Edit git Commit Template
Git allows to define your commit template. The template file name is defined in your git config file.git config --listThe default value is as follows:
commit.template=/Users/I find it convenient to have certain values already added to the file. For example I am adding the current sprint number as well as the issue number to the commit./.stCommitMsg
This means that I usually edit the file once every sprint or sometimes if I want to per-populate the current issue number even more often.
To open the git commit template with one line without knowing the exact file name I put the following one-liner in my ~/.bashrc file
alias git-edit-commit-template="vim $(git config --list | grep commit.template | cut -d= --output-delimiter=$' ' -f1- | cut -d' ' -f2)"As it turns out, there is an easier way to extract the value with using a git build-in command:
git config commit.template