From: Alexei Lozovsky <a.lozovsky@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:47:02 GMT
Subject: Re: An anomaly, not a bug
Message-ID: <CALhvvbap=-KNHiDvKy4bb9BdWkgbxOjhVXAw+EQpRNXKeqgQFw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALhvvbYnTf9qqsCFWjgfnynRy9LDEQf=Y++2tQioTKHbaYGHDA@mail.gmail.com>

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

Even not as a comment, it treats it as literally a filename with
a hash and that comment in it. However, one (usually) does not
name their files like that, so for all purposes this can be thought
of as a sort of comment.