From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:48:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Is this a bug?
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Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:

> Or maybe --amend should imply --cleanup=whitespace.

I am fairly negative on that.

Such a hidden linkage, even if it is documented, is just one more
thing people need to learn.

It _might_ be interesting (note: I did not say "worthwhile" here) to
think what happens if we scanned the message (either coming from the
commit being amended, -F file option, or -m message option), picked
a punctuation character that does not appear at the beginning of the
lines in it, and automatically adjusted core.commentchar if '#'
appears at the beginning of one of the lines, though.