commit: allow core.commentChar=auto for character auto selection

diff --git a/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh b/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh
index 7b922c39480c8b78d0687cbabac59672f9ae6ede..7e40f40c78e2b040ae5b85adb27ebd4828f42b4d 100755 (executable)
--- a/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh
+++ b/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ fi
 
 # This could be traditional "merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."  and the
 # way we can tell it is to see if the second token is HEAD, but some
-# people might have misused the interface and used a committish that
+# people might have misused the interface and used a commit-ish that
 # is the same as HEAD there instead.  Traditional format never would
 # have "-m" so it is an additional safety measure to check for it.
 
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ case "$use_strategies" in
 '')
        case "$#" in
        1)
-               var="`git config --get pull.twohead`"
+               var="$(git config --get pull.twohead)"
                if test -n "$var"
                then
                        use_strategies="$var"
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ case "$use_strategies" in
                        use_strategies="$default_twohead_strategies"
                fi ;;
        *)
-               var="`git config --get pull.octopus`"
+               var="$(git config --get pull.octopus)"
                if test -n "$var"
                then
                        use_strategies="$var"