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* [PATCH] config: tell the user that we expect an ASCII character
@ 2023-03-27 19:43 Kristoffer Haugsbakk
  2023-03-27 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk @ 2023-03-27 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk

Commit 50b54fd72a (config: be strict on core.commentChar, 2014-05-17)
notes that “multi-byte character encoding could also be misinterpreted”,
and indeed a multi-byte codepoint (non-ASCII) is not accepted as a valid
`core.commentChar`.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
---
 config.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 00090a32fc..ae68c0f736 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 			comment_line_char = value[0];
 			auto_comment_line_char = 0;
 		} else
-			return error(_("core.commentChar should only be one character"));
+			return error(_("core.commentChar should only be one ASCII character"));
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-- 
2.40.0


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