Merge pull request #314 from snowyu/feature/custom-commit-message

added custom commit message option to `git-release`

bin/git-release

@@ -29,13 +29,17 @@ if test $# -gt 0; then
     case "$1" in
     -c) git-changelog -t "$version" ;;
     -r) remote=$2; shift ;;
+    -m) msg=$2; shift ;;
     --) shift; break;;
     *)  usage ;;
     esac
     shift
   done
-  git commit -a -m "Release $version"
-  git tag $version -a -m "Release $version" \
+  if [ -z "$msg" ]; then
+      msg="Release ${version}"
+  fi
+  git commit -a -m "$msg"
+  git tag $version -a -m "$msg" \
     && git push $remote \
     && git push $remote --tags \
     && hook post-release \

man/git-release.md

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ git-release(1) -- Commit, tag and push changes to the repository
 
 ## SYNOPSIS
 
-`git-release` <tagname> [-r <remote>] [-c]
+`git-release` <tagname> [-r <remote>] [-m <commit info%gt;] [-c]
 
 ## DESCRIPTION
 
-  Commits changes with message "Release <tagname>", tags with the given <tagname> and pushes the branch / tags.
+  Commits changes with message "Release <tagname>" or custom commit infomation, tags with the given <tagname> and pushes the branch / tags.
   Optionally it generates a changelog (see git-changelog) and a remote can be defined. The order of first -c or -r does not matter.
 
 ## OPTIONS
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ git-release(1) -- Commit, tag and push changes to the repository
 
   The "remote" repository that is destination of a push operation: it is passed to git push.
   
+  -m <commit info>
+
+  use the custom commit infomation instead of the default message "Release <tagname>" .
+
   -c
   
   Generates or populates the changelog with all commit message since the last tag. For more info see git-changelog..
@@ -30,6 +34,10 @@ git-release(1) -- Commit, tag and push changes to the repository
 
     $ git release 0.1.0
 
+  * Release commit with the given <tagname> and custom commit message.
+
+    $ git release 0.1.0 -m "+ powerful feature added."
+
   * Release commit with the given <tagname> and push to specific remote.
 
     $ git release 0.1.0 -r github