hdlist1">-v</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">--verbose</dt>
<dd>
<p>Show unified diff between the HEAD commit and what
would be committed at the bottom of the commit message
template to help the user describe the commit by reminding
what changes the commit has.
Note that this diff output doesn&#8217;t have its
lines prefixed with <em>#</em>. This diff will not be a part
of the commit message. See the <code>commit.verbose</code> configuration
variable in <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>.</p>
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