From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:50:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit notes workflow
Message-ID: <7v39n4ammh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTino7fGnLutJ3cAxcvx8O-JbcDPJDrYHznjoN-TC@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> Can someone explain why -v does not output it's data prefixed by a
> '#'? If someone really wanted to include it in their commit message
> they can column-select-delete it, and if they don't, it just gets
> deleted by the cleanup code?

Good question.  There was no reason other than "that is just a historical
accident".

The intention has always been "allow people to review the change for the
last time while writing a log message"; there was never a feature request
to allow the diff to be included---it would always have been an unwelcome
accident it that ever happened.