Every once in a while I want to include lines that start with # in git commit messages.
The question is "Is there a way to escape the # character so that it is not interpreted as a comment mark?"
Please answer with "Yes, it is.." or "No".
This is not a duplicate of Start a git commit message with a hashmark (#). I simply want a confirmation of whether it is possible to escape or not.
No, it isn't possible to escape the character. If the comment character is #, and you write \#, then your commit message will contain the literal text \#.
If you need to use a different character, you can set core.commentchar to a different value. This can be done on the command line with something like git -c 'core.commentchar=;' commit.
Run this to make it a permanent preference:
git config --global --add core.commentchar ';'