Merge branch 'jk/core-comment-string'

core.commentChar used to be limited to a single byte, but has been
updated to allow an arbitrary multi-byte sequence.

* jk/core-comment-string:
  config: add core.commentString
  config: allow multi-byte core.commentChar
  environment: drop comment_line_char compatibility macro
  wt-status: drop custom comment-char stringification
  sequencer: handle multi-byte comment characters when writing todo list
  find multi-byte comment chars in unterminated buffers
  find multi-byte comment chars in NUL-terminated strings
  prefer comment_line_str to comment_line_char for printing
  strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_add_commented_lines()
  strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_commented_addf()
  strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_stripspace()
  environment: store comment_line_char as a string
  strbuf: avoid shadowing global comment_line_char name
  commit: refactor base-case of adjust_comment_line_char()
  strbuf: avoid static variables in strbuf_add_commented_lines()
  strbuf: simplify comment-handling in add_lines() helper
  config: forbid newline as core.commentChar

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
index c758de3729..97fa4a3d01 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ void strbuf_splice(struct strbuf *sb, size_t pos, size_t len,
  */
 void strbuf_add_commented_lines(struct strbuf *out,
 				const char *buf, size_t size,
-				char comment_line_char);
+				const char *comment_prefix);
 
 
 /**
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ void strbuf_addf(struct strbuf *sb, const char *fmt, ...);
  * blank to the buffer.
  */
 __attribute__((format (printf, 3, 4)))
-void strbuf_commented_addf(struct strbuf *sb, char comment_line_char, const char *fmt, ...);
+void strbuf_commented_addf(struct strbuf *sb, const char *comment_prefix, const char *fmt, ...);
 
 __attribute__((format (printf,2,0)))
 void strbuf_vaddf(struct strbuf *sb, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
@@ -518,11 +518,11 @@ int strbuf_getcwd(struct strbuf *sb);
 int strbuf_normalize_path(struct strbuf *sb);
 
 /**
- * Strip whitespace from a buffer. If comment_line_char is non-NUL,
+ * Strip whitespace from a buffer. If comment_prefix is non-NULL,
  * then lines beginning with that character are considered comments,
  * thus removed.
  */
-void strbuf_stripspace(struct strbuf *buf, char comment_line_char);
+void strbuf_stripspace(struct strbuf *buf, const char *comment_prefix);
 
 static inline int strbuf_strip_suffix(struct strbuf *sb, const char *suffix)
 {
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ char *xstrfmt(const char *fmt, ...);
 
 int starts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix);
 int istarts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix);
+int starts_with_mem(const char *str, size_t len, const char *prefix);
 
 /*
  * If the string "str" is the same as the string in "prefix", then the "arg"