Vim has a (oftentimes) nice feature of remembering where in a file you were when you open it again. Which is all well and good, but it’s based on filenames, and git commit messages are always the same. So it remembers the line number where I finished my last commit message. I always want git commit messages to open up on the first line. Here’s some vimrc magic to make it Do The Right Thing™
" don't remember the cursor position in git commits
au FileType gitcommit au! BufEnter COMMIT_EDITMSG call setpos('.', [0, 1, 1, 0])
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