Re: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> wrote:
>> git commit will happily let you specify log messages beginning with #.
>> But then on git rebase -i, when squashing some commits, 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 of existing
>> log message lines which begin with #.  That is a bit of a kludge but it is
>> better than losing them because they got mixed up with comments.
>
> 'git rebase --interactive' respects the core.commentChar configuration
> variable, which you can set to some value other than '#'.

Yeah. I recommend setting it to 'auto' so it will pick an unused
character as separator (most of the time, don't push it too hard)
-- 
Duy