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I currently used GitAhead as my primary GUI for interfacing git source control. My question is if it is possible to support multi-line commits messages with GitAhead?

My first thought is there might be a way to amend the default config file to change the commit button's git command or add a sequence of commands, such as git commit -f [file] or git commit -m "Short Message" and then after that run git commit --amend.

If this isn't possible, then is the only option to modify source code since it is open source? I believe the most likely case is I am just missing a configuration setting that is possible.

Paul Renton
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  • You should be able to write multiline commit messages by just pressing Enter in the commit message editor. Do you mean something different? – Jason Haslam Aug 07 '20 at 22:50
  • I am writing multi-line but they are always showing up as a single line of text on the commit on my local repo and on the remote server repo @JasonHaslam – Paul Renton Aug 08 '20 at 16:55
  • I've never seen anything like that. Just to be clear, are you adding explicit line breaks by pressing Enter? – Jason Haslam Aug 10 '20 at 15:25
  • Yes. It is worth noting we host our backend repo on a Linux server. Maybe it is line break conversions? @JasonHaslam – Paul Renton Aug 10 '20 at 15:56
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    For the record, GitAhead development has been stopped. The Gittyup fork has successfully taken the succession: https://github.com/Murmele/Gittyup. – Joël Esponde Dec 03 '22 at 17:14

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It is possible to write multi-line commit messages with GitAhead.

You have to let a blank line between the short summary and the long description.

Here is a screenshot of GitAhead 2.6.3 ready to commit a multi-line message:

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Joël Esponde
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