From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:35:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sequencer: remove use of comment character
Message-ID: <xmqqa5rzadlh.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BE6_nuMeiqOAMGwP8SH=d1+i57-STgTNKU8-Gnkv2jW=Q@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought the point of the comment_line_char was so that commit
> messages could have lines starting with '#'.  That rationale doesn't
> apply to the TODO list generation or parsing, and I'm not sure if we
> want to add the same complexity there.

Thanks for a healthy dose of sanity.  I noticed existing use of
comment_line_char everywhere in sequencer.c and assumed we would
want to be consistent, but you are right to point out that they are
all about the COMMIT_EDITMSG kind of thing, and not about what
appears in "sequencer/todo".