Re: inaccurate commit message message?

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] wrote:

Heya,

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

The documentation, both in man git-commit and in the commit message
message, is misleading when you do git commit --verbose.
My proposal is to make it less misleading, by saying in at least one,
and ideally both, of those places what you just told me for the first
time: when you do a git commit --verbose, the diff lines and
everything after will be ignored for the commit message.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier