From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:13:31 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rebase -i: respect core.commentchar Message-ID: <7vehgmjsno.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130211230804.GF2270@serenity.lan> John Keeping writes: > @@ -179,7 +182,9 @@ die_abort () { > } > > has_action () { > - sane_grep '^[^#]' "$1" >/dev/null > + echo "space stripped actions:" >&2 > + git stripspace --strip-comments <"$1" >&2 > + test -n "$(git stripspace --strip-comments <"$1")" > } I'll remove the debugging remnants while queuing. > fixup) > echo > - echo "# The $(nth_string $count) commit message will be skipped:" > + printf '%s\n' "$comment_char The $(nth_string $count) commit message will be skipped:" > echo > - commit_message $2 | sed -e 's/^/# /' > + # Change the space after the comment character to TAB: > + commit_message $2 | git stripspace --comment-lines | sed -e 's/ / /' I think this changes the behaviour but in a good way. It used to show an empty line in the incoming commit message to a hash followed by a trailing HT before the end of line, but now it only emits the comment char immediately followed by the end of line. > @@ -942,20 +948,18 @@ test -s "$todo" || echo noop >> "$todo" > test -n "$autosquash" && rearrange_squash "$todo" > test -n "$cmd" && add_exec_commands "$todo" > > -cat >> "$todo" << EOF > - > -# Rebase $shortrevisions onto $shortonto > -EOF > +echo >>"$todo" > +printf '%s\n' "$comment_char Rebase $shortrevisions onto $shortonto" >>"$todo" I think you can still do cat >>"$todo" <