Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
There will most likely need where e.g., above or below, around the
"need" -> "need for adding a new option to specify".
In sort, we would need to have more than just "use this message"
anyway, and cramming everything into the single "--comment" option,
even if it were feasible, would not be a good idea.
"var = val" line to place the comment as well, so I do not see much
value in investing more brain cycles on what the "--comment" option
should look like, while we only support single-liners and explicitly
reject multi-line messages.