Re: Log messages beginning # and git rebase -i

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Then, as you say, it is up to the user to remove things that Git has
added. Why would we ask the user to do this when we have a way to have
the tool do it?

The timeline of development, perhaps?  I thought cleanup=scissors was
a fairly recent invention that hasn't been used widely yet.