Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Can someone explain why -v does not output it's data prefixed by a > '#'? If someone really wanted to include it in their commit message > they can column-select-delete it, and if they don't, it just gets > deleted by the cleanup code? Good question. There was no reason other than "that is just a historical accident". The intention has always been "allow people to review the change for the last time while writing a log message"; there was never a feature request to allow the diff to be included---it would always have been an unwelcome accident it that ever happened. -- 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