doc: config: mention core.commentChar on commit.cleanup
Mention it in parentheses since we are in a configuration context. Refer to the default as such, not as “the” character. Also don’t mention `#` again; just say “comment character”. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Kristoffer Haugsbakk committed
May 27, 2025 at 23:19 UTC
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This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in
`git commit`. {see-git-commit} Changing the default can be useful
when you always want to keep lines that begin
- with the comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you
+ with the comment character (`core.commentChar`, default `#`)
+ in your log message, in which case you
would do `git config commit.cleanup whitespace` (note that you will
- have to remove the help lines that begin with `#` in the commit log
- template yourself, if you do this).
+ have to remove the help lines that begin with the comment character
+ in the commit log template yourself, if you do this).
`commit.gpgSign`::
A boolean to specify whether all commits should be GPG signed.