Re: Obscure commit message formatting issue

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> > 
> > > The current code drops extra blank lines between the first line of a 
> > > commit message (the summary line) and the remainder.
> > 
> > The patch application side does even more.  It not just strips
> > off the leading or trailing blank lines, but duplicate blank
> > lines in the middle and trailing whitespaces at the end of each
> > line.
> > 
> > I am of two minds about the formatting side.
> > 
> > The behaviour you found does not go far enough to correct all of
> > the above whitespace breakage the application side will fix up
> > on the generation side -- it only corrects one of them.  We
> > might want to do more, instead of less that you seem to be
> > implying to favor.
> 
> What I'm actually doing is working on a cover letter implementation.

Funny.

I am in the middle of cleaning out my personal git branch that has a messy 
history, since I never rebased, but always merged.  Now I decided to go 
with rebasing.

And there I found an implementation of a cover letter.  You might want to 
be interested ;-)

	http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=shortlog;h=cover-letter

Ciao,
Dscho