Re: git-rebase -i not escaping # at the beginning of the line

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  Hi,

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:53:27PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:28:41PM -0700, donnoman wrote:
> > > Redmine automatically links those log messages to the ticket when we
> > > use this method.  It works well for git commit -m "#1234 story xyz"
> > > 
> > > However, when we use git rebase -i, all of the lines that include the
> > > # character get stripped out of the commit messages.
> > > 
> > > How can we escape these?
> > 
> > This definitely sounds like a bug, what git version are you using?
> 
> It is sort of a bug, in a very peculiar: try amending such a commit 
> _interactively_.  It will not work.
> 
> The reason: you are not supposed to start any line in a commit message 
> with a '#'.  I would actually have expected "git commit -m" to refuse such 
> a line.

  the line can also come there during import from another VCS, through
email, or so... I think it's more reasonable to deal with them when
filling in the commit message to the editor than in all the other
places.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
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