On Apr 4, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Eli Barzilay <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Apr 4, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Isn't this the same as "%s%n%+b"?
> >
> > The problem with that is that it wraps the first paragraph. So it's
> > fine as long as it's always used as a subject line.
> >
> > (I'm migrating a project to git, and some people will never remember
> > to do that.)
>
> Ok, but then "rev-list --pretty=format:%B" would not be as a good
> tool for migration to begin with (imagine a log message that begins
> with "commit"), compared to say "rev-list --pretty=raw".
Ah, sorry -- I phrased that poorely. We're doing the actual migration
with git-svn, so that's not the problem. The relation to migrating is
that people are not used to using the first paragraph as a subject
line, which means that there will be commit messages that look like:
Fix foo, which means:
1. Do this,
2. Do that,
3. Remove bar.
and such messages come out really ugly. If a project is well behaved
in regards to commit messages always having a subject line, then
there's no big problem, of course. (It can be a little worse if I
have scripts that look for lines with a specific format like commands
for a bug tracking system.)
> It also feels a bit funny to list %B that doesn't do the paragraph
> pretty-printing in pretty-formats.txt documentation ;-) but that is
> not an objection.
(Well, my understanding was that the pretty formats is about the
format strings in general.)
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