Git treats lines starting with # as comment lines when committing. this is very annoying when working with a ticket tracking system, and trying to write the ticket number at the beginning of the line, e.g.
#123 salt hashed passwords
git will simply remove the line from the commit message. is there any way to escape the hash? i tried \ and !, but nothing works. whitespaces before # are preserved, so they aren't a working solution to the problem either.
Use a different prefix for the ticket number. Or prepend a word to the ticket number, like "Bug #42". Or prepend a single space character to the line; if you wish to remove that whitespace you can add a commit-hook for that.
I personally would rather not have this sort of commit message manipulation done by a hook because it can be very irritating when it triggers when you don't want it to. The easiest solution is probably to re-think the problem.
You can use the command line option -m:
git commit -m "#123 fixed"
This behaviour is part of git commit's default 'clean-up' behaviour. If you want to keep lines starting with # you can use an alternative clean-up mode.
E.g.
git commit --cleanup=whitespace
If you do this you have to be careful to remove all # lines that you don't want to appear in the commit.