Thread by @lucianghinda

I prefer writing detailed Git commit messages.

For Pull Requests or Merge Requests with a single commit, I use the commit message as the body of the request.

But using the simple git log command displays the commit message but has some padding/indentation:

There is a way to fix this by specifying the format

git log -1 --pretty='format:%s%n%n%b'

Explanation for the format provided to git log

You can create an alias out of it to either display the last commit message or copy it to clipboard.

alias .lastmsg="git log -1 --pretty='format:%s%n%n%b'"

pbcopy works on MacOS but there are alternative for Linux

You can find these short notes on notes.ghinda.com/post/bash-one-…

Yes I prefer to prefix custom bash aliases with a dot. This way I know that they are my custom commands.

I think I got this inspiration from @adrianthedev