Re: inaccurate commit message message?

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Heya,

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 17:55, Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The documentation, both in man git-commit and in the commit message
> message, is misleading when you do git commit --verbose.

Correct.

> My proposal is to make it less misleading, by saying in at least one,
> and ideally both, of those places what you just told me for the first
> time: when you do a git commit --verbose, the diff lines and
> everything after will be ignored for the commit message.

Sounds like a good idea. See builtin/commit.c around line 660. You'll
want to check for the verbose flag and adjust the message printed
there accordingly. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches.txt on how to
submit patches.

Please do ask if you have any questions, I'd be glad to help.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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