Emacs with spacemacs takes a long time to load and for some things such as git commit messages I would like to start basic emacs without loading spacemacs. I don't want to wait for spacemacs to start up just for editing a git commit message and closing it right away. Is there a way to do that?
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Starting Emacs Without Loading Spacemacs
If you run Emacs with the -q flag, it won't load an init file.
If you're looking to do this for commit messages, you can configure git to use emacs -q as your editor:
git config --global core.editor "emacs -q"
Alternatives
These two methods are not exactly what you asked for, but they are alternate ways to fix your problem.
1. Daemon
This method will allow you to get a working Spacemacs faster.
You can run emacs as a daemon with M-x server-start, then connect to the running instance with emacsclient. Because you're not starting Emacs up each time, it will be very fast.
2. Magit
This method eliminates the need for you to run git on the commandline, making it fast to type commit messages.
There is a package called Magit that has functionality to perform git commands from inside Emacs. Beyond making it easier to type commit messages, it has many other nice features.
