Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] fmt-merge-msg: Make the number of log entries in commit message configurable

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:25:59 +0530

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Hmm, this seems to be trying to have it both ways.  It would be simpler to
> either:
> 
> 	static int merge_summary;
> 	static int log_limit = 20;
> 
> providing independent internal "enabled" and "limit" knobs, so one could use,
> say,
> 
> 	[merge]
> 		log = 2
> 		log = false
> 		log = true
> 
> with the result being be a log_limit of 2, or
> 
> 	static int log_limit;
> 
> where 0 means disabled, so in that example the result would be a log_limit
> of 20.
> 
[...]
> What happened to the merge_summary argument?

This patch is roughly equivalent to my original log_limit patch. Yes,
I'm trying to have it both ways in this patch :) merge_summary is set
by both the command-line option and the config option, while log_limit
is set by the config option. As you noticed, the next patch removes
merge_summary.

-- Ram