On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:32 AM, David Wade <DAWAD@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a commit message beginning with a hash (#) character, like this: 'git commit -m "#ifdef ...." ' > > Everything went okay when committing, but then I tried 'git commit -amend' and without editing the commit message I was told I had an empty commit message. > > Is this a problem with my text editor (vim 7.2) or git itself? (git version 1.7.2.2 under RedHat 5.8) Or something I'm not supposed to do ;-) ? The problem is that when doing interactive editing of messages (like 'git commit --amend' does), git considers '#' as a comment-character. You can disable this by using the --cleanup=verbatim switch (or some other suiting cleanup-setting, see 'git help commit'). -- 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