Re: Is this a bug?

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2013, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPQNSY4ordHh2ee8mk-2kCD40+sMf_SxrjfzGbkyGGTNW1TzA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <937BB05095F39E46B969256AA776205322B2CF15C7@ST-EXCL29.statoil.net>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:32 AM, David Wade <DAWAD@statoil.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I wrote a commit message beginning with a hash (#) character, like this: 'git commit -m "#ifdef ...." '
>
> Everything went okay when committing, but then I tried 'git commit -amend' and without editing the commit message I was told I had an empty commit message.
>
> Is this a problem with my text editor (vim 7.2) or git itself? (git version 1.7.2.2 under RedHat 5.8) Or something I'm not supposed to do ;-) ?

The problem is that when doing interactive editing of messages (like 'git commit --amend' does), git considers '#' as a comment-character. You can disable this by using the --cleanup=verbatim switch (or some other suiting cleanup-setting, see 'git help commit').