From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?= Subject: [RFC] Making format-patch output better when blank line is missing? Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:35:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20090117123545.GA22842@chistera.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 17 13:37:16 2009 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 1LOAQK-0002Cq-81 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:37:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756652AbZAQMfs convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:35:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756127AbZAQMfs (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:35:48 -0500 Received: from 226.Red-80-25-139.staticIP.rima-tde.net ([80.25.139.226]:2296 "EHLO etc.inittab.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756011AbZAQMfr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:35:47 -0500 Received: from chistera.yi.org (unknown [192.168.254.34]) by etc.inittab.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FE2801BF6C for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:35:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from userid 1000 by justin with local (Exim 4.69) id 1LOAOv-00063v-8S for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:35:45 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline X-No-CC: Please respect my Mail-Followup-To header User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, I'm using git-format-patch to send commit diff emails, and it was recently brought to my atention that if a commit message consists entirely in a paragraph with no blank lines (particluarly, no blank lin= e after the first line, which is not a summary but just the first line of the paragraph), git-format-patch will place all the commit message in the Subject, which is inconvenient to read. Do you think it would be good to have format-patch do something like this in this case?: Subject: [PATCH] This commit introduces a new function bla() that [= =2E..] [...] makes it possible to apply the frobniz operation to objects that don't bla bla bla bla. (I realize that, with this, the applying logic would have to learn abou= t it. Hm.) --=20 Adeodato Sim=C3=B3 dato at net.com.= org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.or= g =20 - I love you, Shirley, I'm not ashamed to say. - If you love me, then you'll want me to be happy. Even if I'm not with= you. - I don't love you that much. -- Denny Crane and Shirley Schmidt