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>

Kristoffer Haugsbakk committed Mar 27, 2023 at 21:43 UTC d3b3419f8f287cd9d17be30e50937cbc7c4951ff
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config.c
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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; }