From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on commandline
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 02:25:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f23187$5p7$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vsla5pkug.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is slightly related, but I have been wondering about the
> interaction with "single-liner summary, empty line and then the
> rest" convention and various commands in the log family.
>
> Currently, --pretty=oneline and --pretty=email (hence format-patch)
> take and use only the first line. I think we could change it to:
>
> - take the first paragraph, where the definition of the first
> paragraph is "skip all blank lines from the beginning, and
> then grab everything up to the next empty line".
>
> - replace all line breaks with a whitespace.
[...]
> If we were to do this, Subject: line would most likely use
> RFC2822 line folding at the places where line breaks were in the
> original, but that goes without saying.
>
> What do people think?
I agree that it is a good idea. This would e.g. help projects which are
imported from other SCM, which does not have "single-liner summary, empty
line and then the rest" convention of formatting commit messages.
BTW. does rebase work correctly for commits which do not use above
convention?
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-12 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-06 16:10 [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 16:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 12:52 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 14:24 ` [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on commandline Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 14:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:11 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-10 0:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12 0:25 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-05-06 18:22 ` [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Dana How
2007-05-06 23:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 18:23 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 22:53 ` Julian Phillips
2007-05-07 6:35 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 1:41 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08 7:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-08 10:28 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 12:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-08 14:53 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-09 3:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 9:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-08 7:37 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 14:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-06 23:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07 8:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 13:07 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08 3:16 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-08 4:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-08 5:35 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-09 13:41 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-09 16:29 ` Carl Worth
2007-05-11 1:28 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <7vd518gkyo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-05-11 11:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-11 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 23:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12 1:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12 9:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-09 16:33 ` Dana How
2007-05-09 17:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:26 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 17:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:39 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-09 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10 2:27 ` Steven Grimm
2007-05-10 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10 8:00 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-10 22:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-10 22:51 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08 11:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-15 1:00 ` David Kågedal
2007-05-15 23:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 17:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:40 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-05-07 12:16 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-07 12:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-07 12:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 13:14 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-07 22:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-15 0:57 ` David Kågedal
2007-05-15 8:29 ` Karl Hasselström
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