Merge branch 'jk/core-comment-string'

core.commentChar used to be limited to a single byte, but has been
updated to allow an arbitrary multi-byte sequence.

* jk/core-comment-string:
  config: add core.commentString
  config: allow multi-byte core.commentChar
  environment: drop comment_line_char compatibility macro
  wt-status: drop custom comment-char stringification
  sequencer: handle multi-byte comment characters when writing todo list
  find multi-byte comment chars in unterminated buffers
  find multi-byte comment chars in NUL-terminated strings
  prefer comment_line_str to comment_line_char for printing
  strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_add_commented_lines()
  strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_commented_addf()
  strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_stripspace()
  environment: store comment_line_char as a string
  strbuf: avoid shadowing global comment_line_char name
  commit: refactor base-case of adjust_comment_line_char()
  strbuf: avoid static variables in strbuf_add_commented_lines()
  strbuf: simplify comment-handling in add_lines() helper
  config: forbid newline as core.commentChar

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index 8c2305ad2c..dd3e3a7dc0 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -677,18 +677,18 @@ static int edit_branch_description(const char *branch_name)
 	exists = !read_branch_desc(&buf, branch_name);
 	if (!buf.len || buf.buf[buf.len-1] != '\n')
 		strbuf_addch(&buf, '\n');
-	strbuf_commented_addf(&buf, comment_line_char,
+	strbuf_commented_addf(&buf, comment_line_str,
 		    _("Please edit the description for the branch\n"
 		      "  %s\n"
-		      "Lines starting with '%c' will be stripped.\n"),
-		    branch_name, comment_line_char);
+		      "Lines starting with '%s' will be stripped.\n"),
+		    branch_name, comment_line_str);
 	write_file_buf(edit_description(), buf.buf, buf.len);
 	strbuf_reset(&buf);
 	if (launch_editor(edit_description(), &buf, NULL)) {
 		strbuf_release(&buf);
 		return -1;
 	}
-	strbuf_stripspace(&buf, comment_line_char);
+	strbuf_stripspace(&buf, comment_line_str);
 
 	strbuf_addf(&name, "branch.%s.description", branch_name);
 	if (buf.len || exists)