From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Bash Subject: Re: Overlong lines with git-merge --log Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:49:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <982632649.556351.1351864173516.JavaMail.root@genarts.com> References: <5093C98D.90807@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: Tim Janik X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 02 14:49:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TUHdB-0003ox-N7 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:49:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757854Ab2KBNtl (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:49:41 -0400 Received: from hq.genarts.com ([173.9.65.1]:43420 "HELO mail.hq.genarts.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757847Ab2KBNtk (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:49:40 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38897BE1ADD; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:49:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.hq.genarts.com Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.hq.genarts.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nBgYIjPt7nNY; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:49:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EC2BE1ABC; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:49:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5093C98D.90807@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Zimbra 7.2.0_GA_2669 (ZimbraWebClient - GC22 (Mac)/7.2.0_GA_2669) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Janik" > Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 9:24:29 AM > Subject: Re: Overlong lines with git-merge --log > > On 02.11.2012 11:05, Jeff King wrote: > > > Taking just the first line of those often cuts off the useful part. > > It was deemed less bad to show the whole message as a subject rather > > than cut it off arbitrarily. > > Thanks a lot for the explanation, I'm using git directly here, but the > two cases I had indeed lacked this newline. FWIW we use merge --log quite extensively here at the office, and I've developed a habit to skim the extremely long lines and attempt to cut them intelligently (something I don't trust the computer to do for me). Sometimes that means taking the second or third sentence if it's a better summary, sometimes it's just abbreviating the first. Now that merge automatically spawns an editor, this is quite convenient (though it does take a bit longer). Thanks, Stephen