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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail•com>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail•com>,
	 Tony Tung via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail•com>,
	 git@vger•kernel.org,  Tony Tung <tonytung@merly•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] sequencer: remove use of hardcoded comment char
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:16:01 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo7gexr9a.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f59f75cd-1991-456a-9ea6-638b39711bf1@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:18:10 +0000")

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail•com> writes:

> As far as I can see those remaining instances are all to do with the
> '#' that separates a merge subject line from its parents. I don't
> think we need to complicate things anymore by respecting
> core.commentchar there as the '#' is not denoting a commented line, it
> is being used as an intra-line separator instead.

It is unfortunate that the format of the file needs an intra-line
separator in the first place, but I tend to agree with you that the
comment-line-char would be a terrible fit there.  '#' or any
replacement character at the beginning of a line is easy to spot as
a signal that the line in its entirety is commented out, but it is
much harder to eyeball-spot a single punctuation character in the
middle of a line.  If we do not have to look for a different
character depending on the comment-line-char setting, it would make
the system (slightly) easier to use.

> I agree that I don't see much point in respecting core.commentchar in
> the TODO file as unlike a commit message a legitimate non-commented
> line will never begin with '#'. Unfortunately I think we're committed
> to respecting it - see 180bad3d10f (rebase -i: respect
> core.commentchar, 2013-02-11)

Yeah, the ship has long sailed.

> I think splitting the changes so that we have one patch that fixes the
> TODO file generation and another that fixes the commit message
> generation for fixup commands would be best.

Yes, it would be great.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-01  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-30  3:08 [PATCH] sequencer: remove use of comment character Tony Tung via GitGitGadget
2023-10-30  4:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-30 17:26   ` Elijah Newren
2023-10-30 23:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-31  4:42       ` Tony Tung
2023-10-31  4:50       ` Tony Tung
2023-10-31  5:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-31  6:20         ` Elijah Newren
2023-10-31  5:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] sequencer: remove use of hardcoded comment char Tony Tung via GitGitGadget
2023-10-31  5:09   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] sequencer: remove use of comment character Tony Tung via GitGitGadget
2023-10-31 11:43     ` Phillip Wood
2023-11-01  4:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-31  5:09   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] sequencer: fix remaining hardcoded comment char Tony Tung via GitGitGadget
2023-10-31 11:27     ` Phillip Wood
2023-10-31  6:55   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] sequencer: remove use of " Elijah Newren
2023-10-31 11:18     ` Phillip Wood
2023-11-01  0:16       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-11-01  0:21       ` Elijah Newren

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