Adds syntax highlighting to Git commit, merge, and rebase messages edited in Atom.

You can configure Atom to be your Git editor with the following command:

git config --global core.editor "atom --wait"

This package uses warning and error highlighting to help bring attention to some violations of standard conventions around commit message best practices:

1. If the subject line goes beyond 50 characters and again if it goes beyond 72 characters
2. If the subject line begins with a lower-case letter (emoji at the beginning of the subject line won't be highlighted)
3. If the subject line ends with a period
4. If any non-comment body line goes beyond 72 characters

If language-diff is installed, the diff part of git commit --verbose messages is highlighted as well.

Originally converted from the Git TextMate bundle.

Contributions are greatly appreciated. Please fork this repository and open a pull request to add snippets, make grammar tweaks, etc.