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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw•cz>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann•org>
Cc: GIT Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH Cogito] Make use of external editor work like CVS
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 17:56:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050508155656.GV9495@pasky.ji.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115566990.9031.108.camel@pegasus>

Dear diary, on Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:43:10PM CEST, I got a letter
where Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann•org> told me that...
> Hi Petr,

Hi,

> > What is so special about 74 columns? Why not 75 (fmt default), or 72
> > (emails)?
> 
> I ended up with 74, because "CG" has only two letters instead of "CVS"
> which has three. And cg-log uses a prefix of four whitespaces. This
> leaves two free characters at the end of a line if your terminal uses a
> width of 80 characters. The decision was of cosmetic nature.

Isn't one free character enough?  I'll just stay with 75. :-)

> > Also, I'd prefer the empty line to be always there in front of the CG:
> > stuff (two empty lines in case of merge - I want to encourage people to
> > keep possible details w.r.t. the merge separated by an empty line from
> > the merge information), and when reading it back cg-commit should strip
> > any trailing empty lines.
> 
> I think we should differentiate between the merges. There is no need for
> additional information if it is an automatic merge (no conflicts) and in
> general it makes no sense to open the editor (until forced). I wanted to
> address this later. And yes in case of a manual merge it is a good idea
> to add two extra empty lines at the top.

Not so. I frequently write a brief summary of what I'm actually merging.
I'm not forcing you to do so too, but I personally think it's a good
idea, and want to do it in the future too. :-)

> This is only cosmetic. Using vim it displays the name of the temporary
> file and confusing the user with gitci2.XXXX instead of gitci.XXX is
> weird. Even using gitci as basename looks not good to me, but I left it
> for now.

It boosts the patch size unnecessarily. It shouldn't be called gitci2
anyway... :-) Feel free to change the mktemp templates instead.

The gitci name comes all the way from the times where this command was
usually triggered by 'git ci'.

> Index: cg-commit
> ===================================================================
> --- f00d7589973e8ea65d2264f5fbac82e1b217dc8f/cg-commit  (mode:100755)
> +++ cb61efa8a01400150162af9b0f3773f21d502fe9/cg-commit  (mode:100755)
> @@ -94,30 +78,55 @@
>  		echo "$uri" >>$LOGMSG
>  		[ "$msgs" ] && echo "$uri"
>  	done
> -	echo >>$LOGMSG
> +else
> +	first=1
>  fi
> -first=1
> +
>  for msg in "${msgs[@]}"; do
>  	if [ "$first" ]; then
>  		first=
>  	else
>  		echo >>$LOGMSG
>  	fi
> -	echo $msg | fmt >>$LOGMSG
> +	echo $msg | fmt -s -w 74 >>$LOGMSG
>  done
> +
> +if [ "$first" ]; then
> +	echo >>$LOGMSG
> +fi

This mess is still here.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-08 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-08 15:02 [PATCH Cogito] Make use of external editor work like CVS Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-08 15:24 ` Sean
2005-05-08 15:25 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08 15:43   ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-08 15:56     ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2005-05-08 16:15       ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-08 17:12         ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08 17:17           ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-08 17:30             ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08 17:40               ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-08 17:51                 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08 18:57                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-08 20:03                     ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08 20:26                       ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-08 21:08                         ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08 21:19                           ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-09  3:28                           ` Edgar Toernig
2005-05-09  7:33                             ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-08 21:46                         ` Sean
2005-05-08 21:43                       ` Marcel Holtmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-08  1:10 Marcel Holtmann

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