From: Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:51:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i
Message-ID: <loom.20150728T115023-269@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRT6=YCHz+phfE+84y27ey-6ScjPxP2cHiVqumJmR6mOw@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine <at> sunshineco.com> writes:

>>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

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

I was thinking of the default configuration.  But you are right, this applies
to whatever the comment character is - so if commentChar is set to * for
example, then log lines beginning with * should get an extra space prepended
in git rebase --interactive so that they don't get lost.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>