From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:25:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRT6=YCHz+phfE+84y27ey-6ScjPxP2cHiVqumJmR6mOw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150727T133256-715@post.gmane.org>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> wrote:
> 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 '#'.