Hi brian, On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, brian m. carlson wrote: > On 2020-01-07 at 16:15:16, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > "brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > I can see the argument that this makes it a little harder for mechanical > > > processing across versions, but I suspect most of that looks something > > > like "sed -i -e '/^squash! /d' COMMIT_EDITMSG" and it probably won't be > > > affected. > > > > With the left-anchoring, the search pattern will no longer find that > > line if "squash!" is commented out, but people tend to be sloppy and > > do not anchor the pattern would not notice the difference. Perhaps > > the downside may not be too severe? I dunno. > > Sorry, I was perhaps bad at explaining this. In my example, it would no > longer remove that line, but the user wouldn't care, because it would be > commented out and removed automatically. So while the code wouldn't > work, what the user wanted would be done by Git automatically. Sounds reasonable to me. Ciao, Dscho
