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> never write a commit message without the diff in hand

To do this in git, use the --verbose flag with git commit. I use it in my configuration by default, and it really helps.

How do you set this by default? I looked through git-config, and elsewhere, but I couldn't find any way to do it, short of using a shell wrapper.

you can probably do something like shadow the commit command with an alias in your global pref file

git (sensibly so) refuses to permit aliases like that.

In your ~/.gitconfig:

    [alias]
      ci = commit -v

Then always commit with: git ci