Show Changes In The Compose Commit Message View

When you execute git commit, you'll be dropped into your default editor and prompted to compose a commit message. By default you'll only see the status and names of the files involved in the commit.

To also see the line-by-line-changes in this view, you'll want to commit in verbose mode.

$ git commit --verbose

You can also set verbose mode as the default by updating your ~/.gitconfig file.

[commit]
    verbose = true

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