Ed Avis <eda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Eric Sunshine <sunshine <at> sunshineco.com> writes: > >>>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 > >>'git rebase --interactive' respects the core.commentChar configuration >>variable, which you can set to some value other than '#'. > > I was thinking of the default configuration. But you are right, this applies > to whatever the comment character is - so if commentChar is set to * for > example, then log lines beginning with * should get an extra space prepended > in git rebase --interactive so that they don't get lost. Actually, is there any reason why we do not allow a simple escaping like \# this is a line starting with # \\ this is a line starting with \ # this is a comment ? -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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