On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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'). Nobody is always conscious about the leading # in commit message to do that. I once edited a commit message and the auto-wrap feature put '#' at the beginning of the line. I saved and went on without noticing one line was lost until much later :( Perhaps we should change the comment signature a bit to reduce accidents, like only recognize '#' lines as comments after a special line like # this is not a comment ### START OF COMMENT ### # this is a comment -- Duy -- 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