rebase has no --cleanup option

Hello,

in rare cases I want to write commit messages with leading # sign and for these messages I call “git commit --cleanup==whitespace”. So far, so good.

Now I want to rebase - modify (edit) the commit message of an old commit, or squash a commit, which has leading # in its comment. I cannot pass --cleanup=whitespace and this is the problem description here — the #-lines disappear after rebase (edit/squash operations).

In theory I could set the commit.cleanup configuration parameter (in .gitconfig), but I prefer not to do this, as I do not want to disable permanently the stripping of lines with leading # in git commit messages.

Please add --cleanup= option to the rebase command.

I use here the command-line git client 2.39.2, not a GUI or whatsoever.

Kind regards
   Дилян

Hi Дилян

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, at 13:11, Дилян Палаузов wrote:

Have you considered changing your `commentchar` to something else that you never use as a leading character in the message proper? For example `%`:

    [core]
            commentchar = %

Looks like:

    git: temporary for demonstration

    % Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
    % with '%' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
    %
    % Date:      Fri Mar 24 13:45:28 2023 +0100
    %
    % On branch master
    % Your branch is ahead of '<remote branch>' by 57 commits.
    %   (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
    %
    % Changes to be committed:
    %	modified:   config/.config/git/config
    %
    % Untracked files:
    %	config/.config/git/gitk
    %

That’s at least what I would do if I used leading `#` since it seems like less trouble than having to change `cleanup`.