On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Abilio Marques <abili...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fossil lets you add a multi-line comment, by making fossil ci, without > passing the -m parameter. It then proceeds to store the newlines in the > database, but then the newlines are not displayed. > > I've been trying to do this at least on the fossil web server timeline > results, but my knowledge of CSS is limited, and even so, I believe it > would be an ugly CSS patch. > IIRC, the solution is to add this to your CSS: .timelineComment { white-space: pre } See: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_white-space.asp > I believe having the flexibility of making more verbose descriptions while > keeping the subject line clean is a "best practice" that could be useful. > Am I wrong about that? > Philosophical questions don't have right or wrong answers, and how to format commit messages is such a question :/. (FWIW, i believe fossil should always display (in CLI mode) exactly what was input, without any sort of reformatting.) -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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