I was wondering why TortoiseGit* was complaining that my commits had no message in them.

“Aborting commit due to empty commit message.”

Turns out the new version by default strips out messages starting with a # character.

As detailed in this issue report, the over-ride is in Settings / Dialogs 2.

*yeah, I’m not a hardcore Git user, though I do prefer Git Bash on Windows for some operations