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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] tag: implement --[no-]strip option
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:42:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC209C7.6090805@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321307019-5557-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name>

Am 11/14/2011 22:43, schrieb Kirill A. Shutemov:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
> 
> --strip::
> 	Remove from tag message lines staring with '#', trailing spaces

s/staring/starting/

> 	from every line and empty lines from the beginning and end.
> 	Enabled by default. Use --no-strip to overwrite the behaviour.
> 
> --no-strip is useful if you want to take a tag message as-is, without
> any stripping.

I would like to know why this is useful. Tag messages are for human
consumption. What benefit is it that whitespace is not stripped? Why are
lines starting with '#' so important that they need to stay in the tag
message?

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-15  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14 21:43 [PATCH, v2] tag: implement --[no-]strip option Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-11-14 22:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-14 22:39   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-11-14 23:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-15  6:42 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-11-15  7:17   ` Junio C Hamano

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