Re: inaccurate commit message message?

Heya,

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 16:37, Ramana Kumar [off-list ref] wrote:

The commit message message says "Lines starting with '#' will be
ignored", but fails to say "Lines below this message will be ignored,
even if they don't start with '#'".

Because they're not. Only those starting with # are ignored.

If the second sentence is true, I think it (or something equivalent)
should be said, especially because of the relevance during commit
--verbose.

It is not true.

In fact the documentation for commit --verbose explicitly says to note
that the diff lines won't start with '#'s, as if warning people that
those lines might show up in the commit message.
Yet they do not seem to show up... (and I don't think they should)

Ah, you are apparently talking about 'git commit --verbose'. It works
a little different there, all lines starting with # are ignored, as
well as everything in and after the diff.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier