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-rw-r--r--config.c8
-rwxr-xr-xt/t7508-status.sh3
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index a30cb5c07d..491a9050ae 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -826,9 +826,13 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
if (!strcmp(var, "core.commentchar")) {
const char *comment;
int ret = git_config_string(&comment, var, value);
- if (!ret)
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ else if (comment[0] && !comment[1]) {
comment_line_char = comment[0];
- return ret;
+ } else
+ return error("core.commentChar should only be one character");
+ return 0;
}
if (!strcmp(var, "core.askpass"))
diff --git a/t/t7508-status.sh b/t/t7508-status.sh
index c987b5ed65..148ab9ebc2 100755
--- a/t/t7508-status.sh
+++ b/t/t7508-status.sh
@@ -1350,8 +1350,7 @@ test_expect_success "status (core.commentchar with submodule summary)" '
test_expect_success "status (core.commentchar with two chars with submodule summary)" '
test_config core.commentchar ";;" &&
- git -c status.displayCommentPrefix=true status >output &&
- test_i18ncmp expect output
+ test_must_fail git -c status.displayCommentPrefix=true status
'
test_expect_success "--ignore-submodules=all suppresses submodule summary" '