Is there any way to incrementally build commit messages in git?

Question

I\'m wondering if it is possible to build git commit messages incrementally, documenting what I\'m doing as I make code changes:

1. Check out and begin work

Answer 1

git commit can take a commit message from a file using the -F option. So, you can do something like this:

# Do some work
$ echo 'Did some work' > commit-msg.txt
# Do some more work
$ echo 'Did some more work' >> commit-msg.txt
$ git commit -F commit-msg.txt