Re: commiting a change from command line with newlines.

Tomas [off-list ref] writes:

I'm trying to write stanzas in my commit message, and naturally
the ASCII newline character is the best tool for this, beautifully
integrated throughout my whole system, from my keyboard to my
screen.

My question is, how can I add a newline from the git command line
without opening an external program like vi, atom, notepad, word
etc...

Just like you pass any command an argument that has newline(s) in
it, e.g.

    $ git commit -s -m 'area: teach gostak to distim doshes[ENTER]
    > [ENTER]
    > Gostaks inherently want to distim doshes, so let them do so[ENTER]
    > freely.' -a[ENTER]

you can give such a string to "git commit" as an argument to its
"-m" option.