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How to (help) prevent commit message misspellings in Vim @ 14 Mar 2015
Some time ago, I was responsible for this:
Best commit message ever: "Remove paccidental character" - @curtisafree
But it's actually not difficult to avoid simple misspellings and typos in Git commit messages thanks to Vim's built-in spellchecker.
Add the following to your Vim config (~/.vimrc) to enable this feature specifically for Git
commits:
" ensure Vim can work with filetypes
filetype plugin on
" assuming this is correct for you, of course
set spelllang=en_us
" enable spellcheck for Git commits
autocmd FileType gitcommit setlocal spell
There's a lot more you can do with Vim's spellchecker; see :help spell for more information.