Pragmatic Guide to Git

7	Committing Changes

Git tracks changes to your repository through commits, which you make with the git commit command. It is the workhorse of Git and something you’ll use a ton.

Prior to most commits, you need to stage the files you want to commit using the git add. You can use it to stage specific changes, portions of files, and other things that are covered in more detail in Task 6, ​Staging Changes to Commit​.

Each commit requires a commit message. You can use -m and a string in quotation marks as your message or use Git’s editor to write a message. There’s more information on the editor in Task 2, ​Configuring Git​. You can specify multiple paragraphs by specifying multiple -m parameters.

You can avoid git add and ...