Am 21.11.2016 um 19:40 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: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?
Heh. I tested a few variations, but not this one. Make it comment_char=${comment_char%"${comment_char#?}"} ;) -- Hannes