Default Commit Message in the Editor

[richardtop]

Currently, when committing, I have to always type the message.
I'd like to have this value to be prefilled with a default message of my choosing, so that I could just click "commit", without the need to type message.

Use-case:

• working locally, private branch, etc. where the commit message is not important / needed yet

Workarounds that don't work:

echo "Default commit message here" > ~/.gitmessage.txt

git config --global commit.template ~/.gitmessage.txt

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be respected with the GitUp editor and no commit message shows up.

UI suggestions:

1. Either to make it a default value that the user can edit and/or remove
2. Or put the user-defined default value if the commit box is empty

Both approaches work for me.