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them to the index, and commit, all in one step.
A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to
-begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character)
-line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more
-thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit
-message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
+begin the commit message with a single short (no more than 50
+characters) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and
+then a more thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in
+a commit message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
throughout Git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a
commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the
rest of the commit in the body.