Subject: Overlong lines with git-merge --log

From: Tim Janik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:30:15 +0100

Hey all.

Using git-merge --log to merge commit messages that spawn multiple lines
will produce overlong summary lines.
That's because each summary line for a commit includes the entire commit
message (all lines concatenated).

According to git-fmt-merge-msg(1), --log should 'populate the log
message with one-line descriptions' instead of using the entire commit
messages.
Which would make a lot of sense, it's just not working as advertised.

Encountered with git version 1.7.9.5.

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Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik

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