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[PATCH] Reformat "your branch has diverged..." lines to reduce line length.

From
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 16, 2008, 19:19 UTC
Message-ID
<1216235967-9510-1-git-send-email-apenwarr@gmail.com>

The message length depends on the length of the branch name. In my case, the branch name "origin/add-chickens2" put the first line of the "your branch has diverged" message over 80 characters, which triggered "less -FS" to not exit automatically as expected.

This patch puts the newlines in slightly different places to reduce the probability of this happening. Now you'd need a significantly longer branch name to trigger the problem.

Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
---
 remote.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 
I suppose a full-on automatic wordwrapper would be nicer :)
 
diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index df8bd72..4f32032 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -1321,19 +1321,19 @@ int format_tracking_info(struct branch *branch, struct strbuf *sb)
 		remote_msg = "";
 	}
 	if (!num_theirs)
-		strbuf_addf(sb, "Your branch is ahead of the tracked%s branch '%s' "
+		strbuf_addf(sb, "Your branch is ahead of the tracked%s branch '%s'\n"
 			    "by %d commit%s.\n",
 			    remote_msg, base,
 			    num_ours, (num_ours == 1) ? "" : "s");
 	else if (!num_ours)
-		strbuf_addf(sb, "Your branch is behind the tracked%s branch '%s' "
-			    "by %d commit%s,\n"
+		strbuf_addf(sb, "Your branch is behind the tracked%s branch '%s'\n"
+			    "by %d commit%s, "
 			    "and can be fast-forwarded.\n",
 			    remote_msg, base,
 			    num_theirs, (num_theirs == 1) ? "" : "s");
 	else
-		strbuf_addf(sb, "Your branch and the tracked%s branch '%s' "
-			    "have diverged,\nand respectively "
+		strbuf_addf(sb, "Your branch and the tracked%s branch '%s'\n"
+			    "have diverged, and respectively "
 			    "have %d and %d different commit(s) each.\n",
 			    remote_msg, base,
 			    num_ours, num_theirs);
-- 
1.5.6.3.385.g94745
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