Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > While I think the way recent "git commit" displays the commit you just created is very helpful, I often find the double quotes around the message unnecessary and sometimes even confusing. I just made a commit and saw this message: > > [master]: created d9a5491: "Show "standard deviation" column in table 3" > > The colon after the shortened commit SHA1 is enough to signal that it will talk about a different piece of information on the rest of the line. I think the extra double quotes can be dropped safely: > > [master]: created d9a5491: Show "standard deviation" column in table 3 > > and it will make the output shorter by two columns, more pretty, and does not lose the clarity. [offtopic. Please wrap your text at a reasonable width around 70 columns] Like this? It might break some existing tests (I didn't check), but I think that is a sensible thing to do. builtin-commit.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git c/builtin-commit.c w/builtin-commit.c index 591d16b..654bfbe 100644 --- c/builtin-commit.c +++ w/builtin-commit.c @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ static void print_summary(const char *prefix, const unsigned char *sha1) { struct rev_info rev; struct commit *commit; - static const char *format = "format:%h: \"%s\""; + static const char *format = "format:%h: %s"; unsigned char junk_sha1[20]; const char *head = resolve_ref("HEAD", junk_sha1, 0, NULL); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html