title: Start a Git commit message with a hashmark (#)
body: <p>Git treats lines starting with <code>#</code> 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.</p>
  <pre><code>#123 salt hashed passwords
  </code></pre>
  <p>Git will simply remove the line from the commit message. Is there a way to escape the hash? I tried <code>\</code> and <code>!</code>, but nothing works. Whitespace before <code>#</code> is preserved, so that's not a working solution to the problem either.</p>