Mastering Go - Second Edition

The git commit command

The git commit command is for recording changes to the repository. After a git commit command, you will most likely need to issue a git push command to send the changes to the remote repository. A very common way to execute the git commit command is the following:

$ git commit -a -m "Commit message"
  

The -m option specifies that the message that will go with the commit, whereas the -a option tells git commit to automatically include all modified files. Please note that this will exclude new files that need to be added first using git add.