From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH 4/8] Don't split long and short description in "stg edit" Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:40:10 -0700 Message-ID: <20071007234009.GA19073@old.davidb.org> References: <20071007231446.12626.14259.stgit@yoghurt> <20071007231735.12626.81744.stgit@yoghurt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Catalin Marinas , git@vger.kernel.org To: Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 08 01:40:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IefjX-0006e3-Qs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:40:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756262AbXJGXkP convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:40:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756191AbXJGXkO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:40:14 -0400 Received: from mail.davidb.org ([66.93.32.219]:52332 "EHLO mail.davidb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756086AbXJGXkN (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:40:13 -0400 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.67 #1 (Debian)) id 1IefjG-00052D-1x; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:40:10 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= , Catalin Marinas , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071007231735.12626.81744.stgit@yoghurt> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:17:35AM +0200, Karl Hasselstr=F6m wrote: >"stg edit" used to present the patch information like this: > > Short description > > From: ... > Date: ... > > Long description > >If the project follows the git convention with a single-line short >description and follwed by a blank line and the rest of the >description, this merely looks a little odd. However, for projects >that don't follow that convention, presenting the first line >separately is actively inconvenient; for example, it breaks emacs's >fill-paragraph command. I think this fix is better to begin with. I found it especially confus= ing when there was only a single line commit message. Now the header looks like a header :-) David