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If you don’t supply `-m`, `git` will pop open your `$EDITOR` with the new commit message. You can use whatever tools you like to wrangle text in there. I use vim, so it’s just a quick `gq<motion>` to format everything.

My vim will automatically wrap when I am typing a git commit message.

Should be set by default from here: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/2f0936cb9a2eb026acac03e6a8fd...

Command line? git normally opens your chosen editor and you are free to write away to your heart's content.

I guess you could stuff multiple -m in there and git will format it nicely, but the editor is for writing and is best used for that.

I write it as normal prose and then pipe through `fold -w 76 -s` to line break. TextMate makes this easy with its "Filter Through Command" menu item.

Emacs + magit and auto-fill-mode

> It just seems like a lot to type in the command line.

I spend my entire workday day in Vim.

There's a good chance this was made in Github's squash+merge dialog.

Edit: never mind, it's auto wrapped at some number

vi :set tw=70