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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip excessive blank lines before commit body
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:50:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <459D225E.4010208@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11678312532251-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

Lars Hjemli wrote:
> This modifies pretty_print_commit() to make the output of git-rev-list and
> friends a bit more predictable.
> 
> A commit body starting with blank lines might be unheard-of, but still possible
> to create using git-commit-tree (so is bound to appear somewhere, sometime).
> 

Lovely. I was just looking in to doing the exact same thing myself.

For reference, there is a tool somewhere that creates CVS commit 
messages with an empty title-line. When imported to git, those empty 
lines remain and fuzz up gitk and qgit viewing ad nauseum. I'm guessing 
(and hoping) this patch would take care of it.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-04 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-03 13:34 [PATCH] Skip excessive blank lines before commit body Lars Hjemli
2007-01-03 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-04 15:50 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]

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