Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
Since there are not many users of git-commit's *-m* flag right now: Is it
necessary to confuse CVS people, who expect to be able to write
git commit -m "I did this and that"
I do not want to be too intrusive, but I think up to now there is just the
mailbox tools which use this feature, and users of git-reset. Thoughts?
I could be talked into renaming the option to something else and
using -m in a way that is CVS compatible.
That flag originally came from JIT, which uses:
-M <commit> literally take the commit message, no editing necessary;
-m <commit> start with commit message in this one but have user edit;
-l <file> use the log message in this file;
-l - read the log message from stdin.