You can add extra lines to your commit messages by adding an extra -m flag to the git commit flag. This is useful if you have extra information that you want captured in your commit, but you don’t want it in your commit message header. For example:

git commit -am "Updates the README with copyright information" -m "This conforms to requirements from Legal."

Will produce the following commit message:

Updates the README with copyright information

This conforms to requirements from Legal.

Now your commit message is split up into a header and a body. You can also add another -m flag for a footer.