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 to
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
- Original Message -
From: Tim Janik t...@gnu.org
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.
It was deemed less bad to show
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
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