On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Similar cases:
>>
>> config.c:git_default_core_config() assumes core.commentchar is ascii.
>> We should catch and report non-ascii chars, or simply accept it as a
>> string.
>
> That one is just an uninterpreted byte.  core.commentString might be
> a nice extension to the concept, but it is an entirely different
> category.

My point is not to output broken utf-8 if we can. If someone
accidentally puts a UTF-8 character in core.commentChar, it will
produce broken utf-8 templates that editors might react, but hard to
see by eye. Something like this may give sufficient protection:

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index aefd80b..b6f73e0 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -726,8 +726,11 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char
*var, const char *value)
        if (!strcmp(var, "core.commentchar")) {
                const char *comment;
                int ret = git_config_string(&comment, var, value);
-               if (!ret)
+               if (!ret) {
+                       if (comment[1])
+                               return error("core.commentchar must be
one ASCII character");
                        comment_line_char = comment[0];
+               }
                return ret;
        }
-- 
Duy
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