Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #

David Aguilar [off-list ref] writes:

I have a poor imagination and cannot imagine why it needs to be
switchable.

I could not either, but I found the reason in the commit message:
eff80a9fd990

    Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #,
    in their commit log message.  Many tracking system recognise
    a token of #<bugid> form, for example.
    
    The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end
    users.  They have a choice between
    
     - Don't do it.  Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and
    
     - Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add.
    
    Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g.
    
        $ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit
    
    so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds.

I personnally think allowing an escape scheme (\#) would have been
better.

But as Junio said, it's too late. My change is not about commentchar
customizability, but about disabling the comment in "git status".

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Matthieu Moy
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