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I have two commits with multiline messages. But in bother cases on github I see only first line.

commit da202cdb5085290a6498c434a0d9388d880fe8c8 Date: Tue Oct 1 16:30:02 2013 +0200 Line 1 Line 2 commit c58f91213428728836b1364ecc111ba71e7c91c6 Date: Tue Oct 1 15:47:12 2013 +0200 [f] unique primary key for id in picture [+] join_db script

https://github.com/antofa/autowp_test/commits/dev

I use next commands for commits:

git commit -F commit_message.txt

git commit -m "Line 1" -m "Line 2"

Can github work with multiline commit messages and how?

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    Were you running into issues when you typed git commit, then typed a commit message with new lines in it? I've not run into that issue...and I would imagine that GitHub would be fine with it, too. Commented Oct 1, 2013 at 13:51
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    I'm not sure what the issue is... I see both lines in the link you provided. In the commit listing, GitHub only shows the first line, because it's meant to be a summary. If you look at the commit itself, such as here, then you see the complete message. Commented Oct 1, 2013 at 14:00

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All lines are there in your Github history, but by default only the subject (first line) is shown in the short history overview.

Click the ... next to a commit's subject line to show the full comment.

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I guess, that in github exist setting, that by default will show all lines of commit message.
no, there is no such setting. any history browsers i know which show large portions of history (with the notable exception of git log) only show the subject line in the overview. There are detail pages for a reason.

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