Junio C Hamano, 28.12.2008: > Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> writes: > > > 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? > > The "first line" actually was what we used to do originally. > > git-native commits did not have problem with this behaviour, but it caused > countless complaints from people looking at the history converted from > other cultures. > > The behaviour was later fixed to avoid information loss when a commit from > a different culture begins the log with a long sentence, choped at > mid-sentence, to continue to the second line. > > Please check the list archive for the details (sorry, I am bit too lazy to > repeat the argument myself). I don't call this lazy. Normally I look myself and don't want others to spend time on searching for me. Reading that there already were discussions about this and that the current behaviour is thoughtful is enough for me to look for details myself. Thanks. 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
