From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:28:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [Bug] - Processing commit message after amend
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DSqeAnCMCawsh-58=B1z93tBCVb+x8XAAUZ17Y1ZaJKA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALy3b+m7YkYB+mPEnAQnjKFAwUS_PqCUFtuxzN7hwhmNfMrw3Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Michal Stasa <michal.stasa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have stumbled on a weird bug. At work, we use redmine as an issue
> tracker and its task are marked by a number starting with #. When I
> commit some work and write #1234 in the message, it works. However,
> later on when I remember that I forgot to add some files and amend the
> commit, vim appears and I cannot perform the commit because the
> message starts with # which is a comment in vim and thus I get an
> error that my commit message is empty.

A workaround would be "git -c core.commentChar=@ <command> ..." (@
could be some other character). But maybe git should detect that the
current commit message has leading '#' and automatically switch to
another character..
-- 
Duy