somehow I just cannot get git to work on the command line. I can push just fine, but when I try to commit -a it’ll either give me a message like this:

# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
...

or it’ll say:

On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
...

and it never actually commits, I have to use vscode’s version control gui to commit. Anyone have any solutions?