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[PATCH/RFC v2] Do not strip empty lines / trailing spaces from a commit message template

From
Boris Faure <billiob@gmail.com>
Date
May 8, 2011, 10:31 UTC
Message-ID
<1304850662-6424-1-git-send-email-billiob@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<4DC65888.7090309@gmail.com>

Templates should be just that: A form that the user fills out, and forms have blanks. If people are attached to not having extra whitespace in the editor, they can simply clean up their templates.

Added test with editor adding even more whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Boris Faure <billiob@gmail.com>
Based-on-patch-by:Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/commit.c                |    4 +++-
 t/t7500-commit.sh               |   14 ++++++++++++++
 t/t7500/add-whitespaced-content |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t7500/add-whitespaced-content
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 67757e9..411d5e4 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 	const char *hook_arg1 = NULL;
 	const char *hook_arg2 = NULL;
 	int ident_shown = 0;
+	int clean_message_contents = (cleanup_mode != CLEANUP_NONE);
 
 	if (!no_verify && run_hook(index_file, "pre-commit", NULL))
 		return 0;
@@ -681,6 +682,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 		if (strbuf_read_file(&sb, template_file, 0) < 0)
 			die_errno(_("could not read '%s'"), template_file);
 		hook_arg1 = "template";
+		clean_message_contents = 0;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -708,7 +710,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 	if (s->fp == NULL)
 		die_errno(_("could not open '%s'"), git_path(commit_editmsg));
 
-	if (cleanup_mode != CLEANUP_NONE)
+	if (clean_message_contents)
 		stripspace(&sb, 0);
 
 	if (signoff) {
diff --git a/t/t7500-commit.sh b/t/t7500-commit.sh
index 47096f9..dedbc0d 100755
--- a/t/t7500-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7500-commit.sh
@@ -123,6 +123,20 @@ test_expect_success 'commit message from file should override template' '
 	commit_msg_is "standard input msg"
 '
 
+cat > "$TEMPLATE" << EOF
+
+
+### template
+
+EOF
+test_expect_success 'commit message from template with whitespace issue' '
+	echo "content galore" >> foo &&
+	git add foo &&
+	GIT_EDITOR="$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t7500/add-whitespaced-content git commit \
+		--template "$TEMPLATE" &&
+	commit_msg_is "commit message"
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'using alternate GIT_INDEX_FILE (1)' '
 
 	cp .git/index saved-index &&
diff --git a/t/t7500/add-whitespaced-content b/t/t7500/add-whitespaced-content
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3d71c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t7500/add-whitespaced-content
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+echo -e "\n \ncommit message  	 \n\n" >> "$1"
+exit 0
-- 
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  1. 1/2 commit: do not cleanup templateBoris Faure, May 7, 2011
  2. 2/2 commit: do not add a newline after a templateBoris Faure, May 7, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2011
  4. Boris 'billiob' FaureMay 7, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2011
  6. Sebastian SchuberthMay 8, 2011
  7. Sebastian SchuberthMay 8, 2011
  8. Do not strip empty lines / trailing spaces from a commit message templateBoris Faure, May 8, 2011
  9. Sebastian SchuberthMay 8, 2011
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2011
  11. Do not strip empty lines / trailing spaces from a commit message templateBoris Faure, May 8, 2011

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