On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Ed Avis <eda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > git commit will happily let you specify log messages beginning with #. > But then on git rebase -i, when squashing some commits, the editing for the > combined log message treats lines beginning with # as comments. This means > that if you are not careful the commit message can get lost on rebasing. > > I suggest that git rebase should add an extra space at the start of existing > log message lines which begin with #. That is a bit of a kludge but it is > better than losing them because they got mixed up with comments. 'git rebase --interactive' respects the core.commentChar configuration variable, which you can set to some value other than '#'. -- 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