From: Alexei Lozovsky <a.lozovsky@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:20:47 GMT
Subject: Re: An anomaly, not a bug
Message-ID: <CALhvvbYnTf9qqsCFWjgfnynRy9LDEQf=Y++2tQioTKHbaYGHDA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161024214601.GA11699@hostname_variable_in_muttrc>

> Note: the comments can be started away from the left margin,
> as normal in all unix-linux configuration files we know of.
> Git follows this behaviour fine.

Actually, git reads

    # comment

as 'ignore files with name "    " (4 spaces)', and then a comment.
It does not ignore the leading whitespace.