From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:18:48 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Allow custom "comment char"
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Allow custom "comment char"

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.

[jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation
updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*()
functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are
from Ralf.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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