From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Retain extra blank lines between the summary and the body Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:09:51 -0800 Message-ID: <7vsl05nnds.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7v4pclx1xu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Barkalow X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 10:10:40 2008 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 1JN2mF-0001xu-G4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:10:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752123AbYBGJKH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:10:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752259AbYBGJKG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:10:06 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:42847 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752123AbYBGJKD (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:10:03 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261773479; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:10:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8856C3478; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:09:57 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Daniel Barkalow writes: > When we discussed this ages ago, I think we came to the conclusion that it > didn't matter. The code doesn't remove extra blank lines from between body > paragraphs, so it's a bit arbitrary to remove them between the first line > and the following paragraph. And people tend not to have commit messages > with blank lines there (in fact, I think git strips them out on commit). Ah, then "Stripping only at the beginning is inconsistent and wrong" would be a better description. Then that's fine by me in either case. Thanks for a reminder.