Re: [PATCH] git-commit: add --verbatim to allow unstripped commit messages

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote:

Hm, this is a bit more intrusive, but should catch most cases.

At the top of the comments in the commit message template add:
#GIT CUT HERE
(And adjust the descriptive text)

Ouch. I'd personally hate to see something like that at the top and then 
have to save it. I always add my text to the top of the message, and all 
the pre-made messages for me are at the top (ie the kinds you get with 
"git commit --amend", where the top of the thing is the old message).

That said, I might well agree with this approach if we made the marker 
line be the *last* line of the message, ie make it be something that ends 
with (ignoring empty whitespace at the end, of course, since those are 
invisible in most editors):

	# Remove this line to keep all comment lines

or something like that.

That still keeps the question about whitespace cleanups. But if it's just 
about whitespace or no whitespace, then a simple "--verbatim" flag would 
work.

			Linus