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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-16 20:18:48 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-16 12:48:22 -0800
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tree6a7b0c000cea480ac8e2714cbbf92691b7237b55 /Documentation/config.txt
parent44fe83502edf5391bb3a5997cab01794b4568062 (diff)
downloadgit-eff80a9fd990de3605063050dae32f969ef18ba8.tar.gz
Allow custom "comment char"
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #, in their commit log message. Many tracking system recognise a token of #<bugid> form, for example. The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end users. They have a choice between - Don't do it. Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and - Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add. Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g. $ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds. [jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*() functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are from Ralf.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -528,6 +528,12 @@ core.editor::
variable when it is set, and the environment variable
`GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1].
+core.commentchar::
+ Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
+ messages consider a line that begins with this character
+ commented, and removes them after the editor returns
+ (default '#').
+
sequence.editor::
Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase insn file.
The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used.