Disable smart quotes in commit window?

Question

Is there a way to permanently disable smart quotes and smart dashes in the commit window? Some of our deploys fail because git complains about the unicode characters.

When I right-click and uncheck Substitutions > Smart Quotes and Substitutions > Smart Dashes it does not remember the setting.

It would be ideal to be able to turn off all spelling "correction" and any other text substitions in this window.

I'm on OS 10.9 and Sourcetree 1.7.4.1.

Thanks.

Chris Novak_lug0qz · Answer

LOL, I just found this issue, and it's EIGHT YEARS OLD.

Obviously, Atlassian doesn't care about their users. Never has, never will.

fingolfin · Answer

I think SourceTree should just always disable the various "smart" substitutions in the commit dialog. The will almost never make sense, and if somebody wants to use "smart" quoties etc., well, they can still enter them manually.

Jeremy Kay · Answer

I had to turn off the setting site wide in order to prevent sourcetree from replacing quotes and dashes in the commit dialog. Ideally it could be disabled just for sourcetree, but this works for me for now.

Go to System Prefs > Keyboard

Choose the Text tab.

Uncheck "Use smart quotes and dashes"