René Scharfe, 28.12.2008: > Markus Heidelberg schrieb: > >> For consistency and increased code reuse, change format: to do the > >> same as the other options. > > > > What's wrong with using the first line instead of the first paragraph > > for the other pretty options and for cases where only a small subject > > line is desired? A sentence would be broken into a small uncomplete part > > for the subject for example. What else? > > I'm inching towards the goal of being able to replicate all of the other > --pretty flavours with format: (or tformat:) strings. > > --pretty=oneline used to print only the first line, but was changed to > the way it's now in 4234a761 more than a year ago. In my mind, > "subject" is defined by "what oneline is printing", so I think changing > the format: placeholder %s to show the whole first paragraph is a bug fix. Yes, now I think so, too. I had also noticed the unexpectedly different behaviour once. > If you actually like the old behaviour then perhaps a new placeholder > (%S ?) should be introduced instead? I don't need it. I rather asked regarding the old behaviour for oneline and so, but reading that there are strong intentions for their behaviour, it's fine. Markus -- 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
