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Re: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2015, 23:25 UTC
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> wrote:
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> git commit will happily let you specify log messages beginning with #.
> But then on git rebase -i, when squashing some commits, the editing for the
> combined log message treats lines beginning with # as comments.  This means
> that if you are not careful the commit message can get lost on rebasing.
>
> I suggest that git rebase should add an extra space at the start of existing
> log message lines which begin with #.  That is a bit of a kludge but it is
> better than losing them because they got mixed up with comments.

'git rebase --interactive' respects the core.commentChar configuration variable, which you can set to some value other than '#'.

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  1. Ed AvisJul 27, 2015
  2. Eric SunshineJul 27, 2015
  3. Duy NguyenJul 28, 2015
  4. Ed AvisJul 28, 2015
  5. Matthieu MoyJul 28, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2015
  7. Ed AvisJul 28, 2015
  8. Matthieu MoyJul 28, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2015
  10. Matthieu MoyJul 29, 2015
  11. Ed AvisJul 29, 2015
  12. allow commentChars in commit messagesCorentin BOMPARD, Apr 22, 2019
  13. Duy NguyenJul 29, 2015
  14. Matthieu MoyJul 29, 2015
  15. Duy NguyenJul 29, 2015
  16. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2015
  17. Matthieu MoyJul 29, 2015
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2015

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