From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Avis Subject: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 27 13:38:44 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJgjx-0000f7-Ih for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:38:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751577AbbG0Lih (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:38:37 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49950 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbbG0Lih (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:38:37 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJgjl-0000Ya-3E for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:38:29 +0200 Received: from 80.169.169.174 ([80.169.169.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:38:29 +0200 Received: from eda by 80.169.169.174 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:38:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 80.169.169.174 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0 Cyberfox/39.0) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- Ed Avis