From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:43:44 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: config: tell the user that we expect an ASCII character
X-Git-Tag: v2.41.0-rc0~122^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3b3419f8f2;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git

config: tell the user that we expect an ASCII character

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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index d0aff55fa6..0b2679994e 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1686,7 +1686,7 @@ 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;
 	}