Re: Adding git-commit highlight mode?

[Björn Bidar]

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/2/2025 10:30 AM, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
>> But Emacs seems to be the only widely popular editor that still doesn't
>> provide OOTB at least syntax highlight for git-commit format. So, does
>> anyone have opposition to adding a major mode that would be bound to
>> filenames like `COMMIT_EDITMSG` and others, and would provide the
>> aforementioned highlight?
>
> For what it's worth, I wrote a very simple package to do this for
> myself, since I don't use Magit. (I'm just so used to the Git command
> line that I've never taken the time to mess with Magit.)
>

Is there a way we can do this without reinventing the wheel? E.g. by
including Jonas's git-commit mode into Emacs?

PS: It would be very beneficial to not uses Github for Emacs
development but other FOSS platforms such as Codeberg. No need to feed
Copilot with our code to copy it into other non-FOSS code.