I said in the log message when applying your version: We even stripped "#" lines from messages given this way: git commit -m "# Message starting with a hash-mark" which was argurably a bug. But I wonder if people are using a workflow like this: $ cp $company_template my_message $ edit my_message $ git commit -F my_message To them, this change is a regression, as $company_template may have had insn like "# Here you describe your changes..." and the workflow relied on the current behaviour of stripping them. - 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