Re: git-rebase nukes multiline comments

[David Kowis <dkowis@shlrm.org>]

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Matthias Hopf wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using git-1.2.4 on SL10.1, in centralized style development (for X.org).
> 
> I wanted to commit a set of changes (4 local commits) upstream, so I had
> to do a git-rebase first (in that particular case a git-pull would have
> been possible as well, but git-rebase fits the CVS style development
> better). After git-fetch, git-rebase origin, and git-push all my changes
> had only the first line of the changelog comment, the remainder was
> nuked.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> mkdir /var/tmp/blaup
> cd /var/tmp/blaup
> git-init-db
> echo test > foo
> git-add foo
> git-commit      (any comment)
> cd ..
> git-clone /var/tmp/blaup bla
> cd bla
> echo test2 >>foo 
> git-commit foo  (multiline comment)
> cd ../blaup
> echo test3 >bar
> git-add bar
> git-commit      (any comment)
> cd ../bla
> git-fetch
> git-log         (shows multiline comment for 'test2')
> git-rebase origin
> git-log         (shows only the first line of the multiline comment!)
> 
> 

I'm new to git, but I tried what you said.
my git log:
commit c846bea8c61bec7cf0f7688c48abc42577b9ac7f
Author: David Kowis <dkowis@kain.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 16 12:20:08 2006 -0500

    this is a multi

    line comment
    with three lines


I'm using git 1.4.0. It added a blank line in there...


David Kowis

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