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>
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Kristoffer Haugsbakk 2023-03-27 21:43:44 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 27d43aaaf5
commit d3b3419f8f

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@ -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;
}