Re: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 29, 2015, 10:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ABsHBA1TubB+6fypT0LGQF_O+CmHPqL+C7nMVjjWy38w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq3808p40o.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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>> If the user wants whatever she types in the resulting commit
>> literally, there is the "--cleanup=<choice>" option, no?
>
> $ GIT_EDITOR=touch git commit --cleanup=verbatim
> [detached HEAD 1b136a7] # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting # with '#' will be kept; you may remove them yourself if you want
> to. # An empty message aborts the commit. # HEAD detached from 5e70007 # Changes to be committed: #     modified:   foo.txt # # Changes not staged for commit
> : #     modified:   foo.txt # # Untracked files: #      last-synchro.txt #
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> You really don't want that in day-to-day use.

How about --cleanup=scissors? The chance that you have the same cut line in your commit message is really low, compared to having comment characters.

-- 
Duy