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You can do this with a more extensive commitMessageTemplate string or the new (as yet unreleased) commitMessageTemplateFile specification. You would need to add your custom message at the top and copy the default commit message template into your template.

@twpayne I wonder if it might be possible to have something like {{ includeTemplate "chezmoi:COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl" }} work?

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You can do this with a more extensive commitMessageTemplate string or the new (as yet unreleased) commitMessageTemplateFile specification. You would need to add your custom message at the top and copy the default commit message template into your template.

Exactly. Please wait for commitMessageTemplateFile and copy the default commit message template.

@twpayne I wonder if it might be possible to have something like {{ includeTemplate "chezmoi:COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl" }} work?

I think that something like this makes sense when chezmoi has multiple built-in templates. Right now, this is not the case and copying the standard template instead makes sense.

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@twpayne I wonder if it might be possible to have something like {{ includeTemplate "chezmoi:COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl" }} work?

I think that something like this makes sense when chezmoi has multiple built-in templates. Right now, this is not the case and copying the standard template instead makes sense.

Not that the COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl file has changed recently, but includeTemplate "chezmoi:COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl" support would make it so that if it were updated, people would get the benefit on upgrade without having to learn that COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl has been updated upstream.

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There's an added complication that with #3322 the structure of the data passed to COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl changed from passing just the git status as . to passing a full set of chezmoi template variables in .chezmoi with the status in .chezmoi.status and a bunch of field renames for consistency. Effectively, #3322 makes the data passed to COMMIT_MESSAGE.tmpl part of chezmoi's API (relevant XKCD.

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Fixed by #3322. Please re-open if you have further questions.

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