Add a hash/pound symbol as the first character in a git commit message in vim

Question

GitHub (probably, wrongly) uses #\'s when referring to GitHub issues. So I would like to add a commit message that refers to the issue on the first line.

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Answer 1

Git allows you to update the comment char from the # symbol to any other. Then you can use the # symbol.

e.g.

git config core.commentChar '>'

or optionally set it globally

git config --global core.commentchar '>'