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[RFC PATCH] builtin-log: Add options to --coverletter

From
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date
May 15, 2009, 00:57 UTC
Message-ID
<1242349041.646.8.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>

Currently the coverletter options for wrapping long lines in the shortlog are: on, wrap as position72, with fixed indents.

I think these defaults can produce poor looking output.

This patch allows these to be optionally specified on the command line with --cover-letter[=wrap[,pos[,in1[,in2]]]]

I'm not sure this is the right approach though.
Suggestions?
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 5eaec5d..de26c04 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -460,6 +460,11 @@ static void add_header(const char *value)
 static int thread = 0;
 static int do_signoff = 0;
 
+static int coverletter_wrap = 1;
+static int coverletter_wraplen = 72;
+static int coverletter_indent1 = 2;
+static int coverletter_indent2 = 4;
+
 static int git_format_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 {
 	if (!strcmp(var, "format.headers")) {
@@ -668,10 +673,10 @@ static void make_cover_letter(struct rev_info *rev, int use_stdout,
 	strbuf_release(&sb);
 
 	shortlog_init(&log);
-	log.wrap_lines = 1;
-	log.wrap = 72;
-	log.in1 = 2;
-	log.in2 = 4;
+	log.wrap_lines = coverletter_wrap;
+	log.wrap = coverletter_wraplen;
+	log.in1 = coverletter_indent1;
+	log.in2 = coverletter_indent2;
 	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
 		shortlog_add_commit(&log, list[i]);
 
@@ -866,8 +871,17 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			rev.subject_prefix = argv[i] + 17;
 		} else if (!prefixcmp(argv[i], "--suffix="))
 			fmt_patch_suffix = argv[i] + 9;
-		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--cover-letter"))
+		else if (!prefixcmp(argv[i], "--cover-letter")) {
 			cover_letter = 1;
+			if (*(argv[i] + 14) == '=') {
+				if (sscanf(argv[i] + 15, "%d,%d,%d,%d",
+					   &coverletter_wrap,
+					   &coverletter_wraplen,
+					   &coverletter_indent1,
+					   &coverletter_indent2) <= 0)
+					die("Need options for --cover-letter=");
+			}
+		}
 		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--no-binary"))
 			no_binary_diff = 1;
 		else if (!prefixcmp(argv[i], "--add-header="))
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