I repeatedly caught myself calling git log before git commit to see what were the last commits before making a new one.
Is there a way how to automatically populate the commented-out section of the git commit message in the editor with the output of git log? Perhaps even with some options like -n5? Right now, it shows the branch and staged files.
Very similar with git: Show index diff in commit message as comment question but --verbose does not show the logs.
I use vim as my editor if it is relevant.
The commit message can be customised using the --edit and --file options. A hyphen can be used with the --file option to read additional commit message text from stdin. This didn't work well for me with vim; maybe because it was not invoked as vim -.
Bash process substitution seems to work though:
git commit --edit --file=<(git log -n5 | sed 's/^/# /')