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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: Generate a newline between the subject header and the message body.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:38:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e967en$bi6$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 44B6369D.6070602@codeweavers.com

Robert Shearman wrote:

> 
> format-patch previously didn't generate a newline after a subject. This 
> caused the diffstat to not be displayed in messages without a blank line 
> and the first blank line to be eaten in messages with a blank line.

Does this _enforce_ separating commit message into subject+empty
line+description? What about commit messages without this structire (e.g.
legacy commit messages from import from other SCM, e.g. GNU ChangeLog
style)?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-13 12:03 [PATCH] format-patch: Generate a newline between the subject header and the message body Robert Shearman
2006-07-13 19:38 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-07-13 20:03   ` Robert Shearman
2006-07-13 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-13 21:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-13 21:55     ` Robert Shearman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-13 22:17 Robert Shearman

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