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Re: [PATCH] sequencer: preserve commit messages

From
Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
Date
Feb 25, 2015, 13:44 UTC
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<1424871878.4688.3.camel@scientia.net>
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On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 10:29 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: 
> Hmm, but if it does not, wouldn't that countermand the wish of the
> user who explicitly asked to clean crufty messages up by setting
> their own commit.cleanup configuration?

IMHO it's just wrong behaviour if the commit messages of people who intentionally chose "verbatim" to get multiple newline, etc. are mangled up, just to allow such people, that also intentionally chose some non-default cleanup mode, but changed their mind later, allow easy clean up.

Cheers, Chris.

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Message 14 of 14 in “[BUG] git mangles up commit messages on rebase”
  1. Christoph Anton MittererFeb 21, 2015
  2. sequencer: preserve commit messagesMichael J Gruber, Feb 23, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2015
  4. Michael J GruberFeb 24, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2015
  6. Michael J GruberFeb 25, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2015
  8. Michael J GruberFeb 26, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2015
  10. Michael J GruberFeb 27, 2015
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2015
  12. [PATCHv2] sequencer: preserve commit messagesMichael J Gruber, Mar 6, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2015
  14. Christoph Anton MittererFeb 25, 2015

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