Re: git-rebase -i not escaping # at the beginning of the line

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 3, 2009, 10:53 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0906031252070.10241@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20090603104718.GA10035@machine.or.cz>

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:28:41PM -0700, donnoman wrote:
> > Redmine automatically links those log messages to the ticket when we
> > use this method.  It works well for git commit -m "#1234 story xyz"
> > 
> > However, when we use git rebase -i, all of the lines that include the
> > # character get stripped out of the commit messages.
> > 
> > How can we escape these?
> 
> This definitely sounds like a bug, what git version are you using?

It is sort of a bug, in a very peculiar: try amending such a commit _interactively_. It will not work.

The reason: you are not supposed to start any line in a commit message with a '#'. I would actually have expected "git commit -m" to refuse such a line.

Ciao, Dscho