Re: [PATCH] git-commit: filter out log message lines only when editor was run.
Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
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> The current behaviour strips out lines starting with a # even when fed
> through stdin or -m. This is particularly bad when importing history from
> another SCM (tailor 0.9.23 uses git-commit). In the best cases all lines
> are stripped and the commit fails with a confusing "empty log message"
> error, but in many cases the commit is done, with loss of information.
I agree with this in principle but we would need to make sure
that our own scripts do not expect that the message is cleaned
up when feeding a commit log message via stdin, -m or -F, and if
they do fix them before applying this patch.
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>