Re: Un-paged commit messages in git filter-branch's commit-filter?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 08:28:18AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:

> I am trying to do a major cleanup of the repository in one of my
> projects (and switch from git-svn to native git). I have developed a
> commit-filter script over the last months that massages partially
> dreadful commit messages into something acceptable. While I am not 100%
> sure I think that upgrading git has broken it partially. AFAICT since
> the update the commit-filter does not get the original message anymore
> but at least the subject/first paragraph is run through a pager or
> something similar:
> The first line is broken into multiple lines (i.e. some line breaks are
> inserted about every 72 characters where none have been before).

There are some output formats that will wrap lines, but by default,
filter-branch should not be using them (and I could not reproduce the
issue in a simple test). Can you show us what your commit-filter looks
like?

-Peff