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Re: git rebase eats commit messages ([perl #94476] &{""} cannotautovivify)

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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
June 15, 2012 13:24
Subject:
Re: git rebase eats commit messages ([perl #94476] &{""} cannotautovivify)
Message ID:
20120615222419.6cab7fa6@pc09.procura.nl
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:10:57 -0700, "Father Chrysostomos via RT"
<perlbug-comment@perl.org> wrote:

> On Sun Jul 10 18:43:42 2011, sprout wrote:
> > I can take a reference to a subroutine with a string (which
> > autovivifies a stub):
> > 
> > \&{"foo"}
> > 
> > I can assign that to the *{""} glob and then take a reference to that:
> > 
> > *{""} = \&{"foo"}
> > \&{""}
> > 
> > But if I try to take a reference to &{""} to begin with,
> > autovivification fails and causes an error:
> > 
> > $ perl -le '*foo = \&{""}'
> > Unable to create sub named "" at -e line 1.
> 
> I fixed this in commit 186a5ba82, but I don’t know how to stop git
> rebase -i from eating parts of the commit message, and I always forget
> about this:
> 
> ...While bug
> #107370 still persists, bug #94476 (\&{""} not autovivifying) has
> been fixed, as it was a side effect of sv_2cv triggering bug #107370.

lines starting with a # are considered comment and not kept iirc

> becoming this:
> 
> ...While bug
> been fixed, as it was a side effect of sv_2cv triggering bug #107370.
> 
> So the commit message is gibberish.  And I only realised after pushing it.
> 
> Is there any way to set git preferences so it doesn’t do that (and
> doesn’t attach git status output to the file containing the commit message)?
> 


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