git-gui: grey out comment lines in commit message
Comment lines are stripped by wash_commit_message, but there is no indication in the UI that they are special and will be removed. Grey these lines out to indicate that they will be removed. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Faust <contrib-git@wolfgangfaust.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Wolfgang Faust committed
Mar 3, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
bb52cdac6254c006e06bf0bb820268dcf024fc22
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git-gui.sh
+18
index d3d3aa14a9..23fe76e498 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -3900,6 +3900,24 @@ if {[winfo exists $ui_comm]} {
backup_commit_buffer
+ # Grey out comment lines (which are stripped from the final commit message by
+ # wash_commit_message).
+ $ui_comm tag configure commit_comment -foreground gray
+ proc dim_commit_comment_lines {} {
+ global ui_comm comment_string
+ $ui_comm tag remove commit_comment 1.0 end
+ set text [$ui_comm get 1.0 end]
+ # See also cmt_rx in wash_commit_message
+ set cmt_rx [strcat {^} [regsub -all {\W} $comment_string {\\&}]]
+ set ranges [regexp -all -indices -inline -line -- $cmt_rx $text]
+ foreach pair $ranges {
+ set idx "1.0 + [lindex $pair 0] chars"
+ $ui_comm tag add commit_comment $idx "$idx lineend + 1 char"
+ }
+ }
+ dim_commit_comment_lines
+ bind $ui_comm <<Modified>> { after idle dim_commit_comment_lines }
+
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# in pipe mode to spellcheck the commit message.
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