From 20a911f9f725088e841f2ebce220b26b1b4fe222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:22:59 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment for this mysterious behavior

---
 lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/config.ex | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/config.ex b/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/config.ex
index e53e21a0b..e2c4cc680 100644
--- a/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/config.ex
+++ b/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/config.ex
@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ defp maybe_atomize(arg) when is_atom(arg), do: arg
   defp maybe_atomize(arg) when is_binary(arg) do
     chars = String.codepoints(arg)
 
+    # hack to make sure input like Pleroma.Mailer.Foo is formatted correctly
+    # for matching against values returned by Ecto
     if "." in chars do
       :"Elixir.#{arg}"
     else