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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] log_ref_write() -- do not chomp reflog message at
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:02:21 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > It is not like the reflog messages have to be very verbose; they only have 
> > to give a hint what the commit was about, and the commit name is the 
> > important information.
> 
> I've considered it, but decided against it because:
> 
>  (1) I did not like the information lossage;
> 
>  (2) this is solely to help log messages coming from outside the
>      recommended convention, and having excess will not hurt the
>      normal usage;
> 
>  (3) it is not known if messages from outside the recommended
>      convention have enough information on its first line of the
>      first paragraph; the result of s/\n.*/.../ may not be
>      sufficient "hint";

Good catch.  Didn't think of that.

Ciao,
Dscho