Re: Overlong lines with git-merge --log

2012-11-02 Thread Stephen Bash
- Original Message - > From: "Tim Janik" > Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 9:24:29 AM > Subject: Re: Overlong lines with git-merge --log > > On 02.11.2012 11:05, Jeff King wrote: > > > Taking just the first line of those often cuts off the useful part.

Re: Overlong lines with git-merge --log

2012-11-02 Thread Tim Janik
On 02.11.2012 11:05, Jeff King wrote: > Taking just the first line of those often cuts off the useful part. It > was deemed less bad to show the whole message as a subject rather than > cut it off arbitrarily. Thanks a lot for the explanation, I'm using git directly here, but the two cases I had

Re: Overlong lines with git-merge --log

2012-11-02 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 02:30:15AM +0100, Tim Janik wrote: > Using git-merge --log to merge commit messages that spawn multiple lines > will produce overlong summary lines. > That's because each summary line for a commit includes the entire commit > message (all lines concatenated). > > According

Overlong lines with git-merge --log

2012-11-01 Thread Tim Janik
Hey all. Using git-merge --log to merge commit messages that spawn multiple lines will produce overlong summary lines. That's because each summary line for a commit includes the entire commit message (all lines concatenated). According to git-fmt-merge-msg(1), --log should 'populate the log messa