Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rebase -i: handle core.commentChar=auto

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:40:53 -0800

Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]> writes:

> comment_char is a command? Did you mean
>
> 	comment_char=$(echo "$comment_char" | cut -c1)

;-)

> It could be written without forking a process:
>
> 	comment_char=${comment_char%${comment_char#?}}
>
> (aka "remove from the end what remains after removing the first character")

Hopefully nobody would include any glob metacharacters in there,
e.g. "core.commentchar='=*'", which would break that?