Re: git-rebase -i not escaping # at the beginning of the line
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:53:27PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:28:41PM -0700, donnoman wrote:
> > > Redmine automatically links those log messages to the ticket when we
> > > use this method. It works well for git commit -m "#1234 story xyz"
> > >
> > > However, when we use git rebase -i, all of the lines that include the
> > > # character get stripped out of the commit messages.
> > >
> > > How can we escape these?
> >
> > This definitely sounds like a bug, what git version are you using?
>
> It is sort of a bug, in a very peculiar: try amending such a commit
> _interactively_. It will not work.
>
> The reason: you are not supposed to start any line in a commit message
> with a '#'. I would actually have expected "git commit -m" to refuse such
> a line.
the line can also come there during import from another VCS, through
email, or so... I think it's more reasonable to deal with them when
filling in the commit message to the editor than in all the other
places.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>