Is there a way to reuse the previous comment on a git commit?

Question

Occasionally I will drop into troubleshooting mode and commit/push a number of small but separate commits with a comment like, \"Troubleshooting the during

Answer 1

.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG contains the last commit message. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_files

git commit --file .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG

will use that file as the commit message.