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This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in
`git commit`. {see-git-commit} Changing the default can be useful
when you always want to keep lines that begin
- with the comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you
+ with the comment character (`core.commentChar`, default `#`)
+ in your log message, in which case you
would do `git config commit.cleanup whitespace` (note that you will
- have to remove the help lines that begin with `#` in the commit log
- template yourself, if you do this).
+ have to remove the help lines that begin with the comment character
+ in the commit log template yourself, if you do this).
`commit.gpgSign`::
A boolean to specify whether all commits should be GPG signed.