On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 '#'. Yeah. I recommend setting it to 'auto' so it will pick an unused character as separator (most of the time, don't push it too hard) -- 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