Heya, On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 16:37, Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The commit message message says "Lines starting with '#' will be > ignored", but fails to say "Lines below this message will be ignored, > even if they don't start with '#'". Because they're not. Only those starting with # are ignored. > If the second sentence is true, I think it (or something equivalent) > should be said, especially because of the relevance during commit > --verbose. It is not true. > In fact the documentation for commit --verbose explicitly says to note > that the diff lines won't start with '#'s, as if warning people that > those lines might show up in the commit message. > Yet they do not seem to show up... (and I don't think they should) Ah, you are apparently talking about 'git commit --verbose'. It works a little different there, all lines starting with # are ignored, as well as everything in and after the diff. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html