From eff80a9fd990de3605063050dae32f969ef18ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:18:48 +0100 Subject: 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 # 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 Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index d5809e0e8c..e99b9f234e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.1