Re: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i

> 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.