Re: [GSOC PATCH v5 0/2] commit: improve behaviour of core.commentChar=auto for comments in commit messages

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Ayush

On 16/07/2025 12:43, Ayush Chandekar wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> The aim of this patch series is to improve the behaviour of core.commentChar=auto by the following patches:
> 1/2 - Fix a bug which reads comment character of the comments in commit message leading to change in the value of `comment_line_str` and thus resulting the comments in the final commit message.
> 2/2 - Standardizes the behaviour of code by resetting the 'comment_line_str' to "#" when 'core.commentChar' is set to "auto".

This version looks good to me, thanks for working on it.

Junio - shall I rebase 'pw/3.0-commentchar-auto-deprecation' on top of 
this when I re-roll to avoid conflicts?

Thanks

Phillip

> Thanks to Junio, Phillip and Kristoffer for reviewing the patches and also Christian for the reviews and mentoring me.
> 
> The only difference between this version (v5) and the previous one is that I've added credit to Phillip for patch (2/2).
> 
> Ayush Chandekar (2):
>    commit: avoid scanning trailing comments when 'core.commentChar' is
>      "auto"
>    config: set comment_line_str to "#" when core.commentChar=auto
> 
>   builtin/commit.c           |  6 +++++-
>   config.c                   |  6 ++++--
>   t/t3418-rebase-continue.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
J