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

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.

e.g.

#12: New commit

- Did a thing
- Did another thing

Vim/git ignores lines starting with #'s though so I'm not sure how to escape it 🤷‍♂️

git vim

Solution 1:^[1]

The simplest way to avoid git interpreting the issue number as a comment line, is to insert another character before, so the # is not the leading character of the line (a space will do the trick).

Here is an example:

#45

will be seen as a comment

 #45
Issue #45

will both be taken entirely as commit messages

Solution 2:^[2]

Try: git commit --amend -m "# ... "

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

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