Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@xxxxxx> writes: > -If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not > -the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages. This is so far in the past but I suspect this was deliberately left vague so that we can add (or subtract) the set of possible letters to use. > +If set to "auto", `git-commit` will select the first character > +from the set "#;@!$%^&|:" that does not appear at the beginning > +of any line in the prepared commit message prior to editing. So I am not sure if this is an improvement. > +Note that this makes it impossible to include comments in the > +prepare-commit-msg hook's output or the commit message template. Care to rephrase? There are degrees of possibilities and "makes it impossible" is being overly broad. I suspect you are saying that it is not nice to make it the responsibility of the end-user who chooses "auto" to ensure that they adjust the default '#' comments injected from the template or hook output when - they have a line that begins with '#' in their message; - the "auto" mechanism chooses to use ';' as the comment character; - the template is written assuming '#' as the comment character and has comments. before making a commit. But "this makes it impossible" does not quite convey that to casual readers. Thanks.
