diff --git a/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.cpp b/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.cpp
index 1f082e5188db6fe4feb8d2f9c6baa0a9646f1774..4de97513fd37ba7a62a28db7cb782d3be4c97cc5 100644
--- a/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.cpp
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <vcsbase/submitfilemodel.h>
 
 #include <QtCore/QDebug>
+#include <QtCore/QStringList>
 
 namespace Git {
 namespace Internal {
@@ -121,6 +122,25 @@ void GitSubmitEditor::slotDiffSelected(const QStringList &files)
         emit diff(unstagedFiles, stagedFiles);
 }
 
+QString GitSubmitEditor::fileContents() const
+{
+    // We need to manually purge out comment lines starting with
+    // hash '#' since git does not do that when using -F.
+    const QChar newLine = QLatin1Char('\n');
+    const QChar hash = QLatin1Char('#');
+    QString message = VCSBase::VCSBaseSubmitEditor::fileContents();
+    for (int pos = 0; pos < message.size(); ) {
+        const int newLinePos = message.indexOf(newLine, pos);
+        const int startOfNextLine = newLinePos == -1 ? message.size() : newLinePos + 1;
+        if (message.at(pos) == hash) {
+            message.remove(pos, startOfNextLine - pos);
+        } else {
+            pos = startOfNextLine;
+        }
+    }
+    return message;
+}
+
 GitSubmitEditorPanelData GitSubmitEditor::panelData() const
 {
     return const_cast<GitSubmitEditor*>(this)->submitEditorWidget()->panelData();
diff --git a/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.h b/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.h
index a2c97e05e2a715f26fd69d3931ec18132e3899b2..88f4dba8e131a4b8e449a4784d1d8a40c56cde47 100644
--- a/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.h
+++ b/src/plugins/git/gitsubmiteditor.h
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ public:
     void setCommitData(const CommitData &);
     GitSubmitEditorPanelData panelData() const;
 
+    virtual QString fileContents() const;
+
 signals:
     void diff(const QStringList &unstagedFiles, const QStringList &stagedFiles);