Re: [PATCH] git-commit: add --verbatim to allow unstripped commit messages

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Dec 21, 2007, 00:49 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712201645020.21557@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071221001449.GA10607@atjola.homenet>

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote:

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> Hm, this is a bit more intrusive, but should catch most cases.
> 
> At the top of the comments in the commit message template add:
> #GIT CUT HERE
> (And adjust the descriptive text)

Ouch. I'd personally hate to see something like that at the top and then have to save it. I always add my text to the top of the message, and all the pre-made messages for me are at the top (ie the kinds you get with "git commit --amend", where the top of the thing is the old message).

That said, I might well agree with this approach if we made the marker line be the *last* line of the message, ie make it be something that ends with (ignoring empty whitespace at the end, of course, since those are invisible in most editors):

	# Remove this line to keep all comment lines

or something like that.

That still keeps the question about whitespace cleanups. But if it's just about whitespace or no whitespace, then a simple "--verbatim" flag would work.

			Linus