This extension adds syntax highlighting for Git commit messages to Nova. This makes Nova even more beautiful when you use it as your Git editor.

Features

• Highlights subject line, message body, comments, etc
• Supports highlighting for all 18 languages supported by Git (English, French, etc)
• Supports the Conventional Commits syntax

How to use Nova to edit your Git commits

You can set Nova up as your editor for writing your Git commit messages: type git commit on the command-line and it will open the commit in Nova. To make this happen, you need to do two things:

1. Make Nova available on the command-line by installing the Nova command line tool
2. Tell Git to use Nova as its editor. On the command-line run:

$ git config --global core.editor "nova --wait --no-recent"

That's it! Next time you run git commit, Nova will open up, ready for you to write your commit message.

Extension icon created by edt.im.

Version 0.2.0

Released 5th June 2023

• Add syntax highlighting for diff portion of commit message (Nova 11+)

Version 0.1.0

Released 25th January 2023

Initial public release.