From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:50:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit: add --verbatim to allow unstripped commit messages
Message-ID: <7vlk7plydv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712201324270.21557@woody.linux-foundation.org>

I said in the log message when applying your version:

    We even stripped "#" lines from messages given this way:

        git commit -m "# Message starting with a hash-mark"

    which was argurably a bug.

But I wonder if people are using a workflow like this:

	$ cp $company_template my_message
        $ edit my_message
        $ git commit -F my_message

To them, this change is a regression, as $company_template may have had
insn like "# Here you describe your changes..." and the workflow relied
on the current behaviour of stripping them.