Commit 50b54fd72a (config: be strict on core.commentChar, 2014-05-17) notes that “multi-byte character encoding could also be misinterpreted”, and indeed a multi-byte codepoint (non-ASCII) is not accepted as a valid `core.commentChar`. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- config.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/config.c b/config.c index 00090a32fc..ae68c0f736 100644 --- a/config.c +++ b/config.c @@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) comment_line_char = value[0]; auto_comment_line_char = 0; } else - return error(_("core.commentChar should only be one character")); + return error(_("core.commentChar should only be one ASCII character")); return 0; } -- 2.40.0