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Re: git rev-list formatting

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 23, 2010, 12:26 UTC
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<20100323122603.GA2053@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:06:38AM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
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> > [...]
> 
> I've made a copy of the repository at
> 
>   http://tmp.barzilay.org/testing.git.tgz
> 
> which shows what I said when I run
> 
>   git rev-list --pretty="%b" 267d60518
>   git rev-list --pretty="%b" 84482

The problem is that most of those commits don't _have_ bodies. Remember that "%b" is about everything in the commit message after the first first paragraph.

Now one might argue that rev-list should still put in the extra newline separator in this case. I haven't been paying attention, but hasn't that been discussed in another thread recently?

-Peff
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Message 12 of 14 in “git rev-list formatting”
  1. Eli BarzilayMar 22, 2010
  2. Eli BarzilayMar 22, 2010
  3. Michael J GruberMar 22, 2010
  4. rev-list: heed --abbrev-commit optionMichael J Gruber, Mar 22, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2010
  6. Michael J GruberMar 27, 2010
  7. Eli BarzilayMar 22, 2010
  8. René ScharfeMar 22, 2010
  9. Eli BarzilayMar 23, 2010
  10. Michael J GruberMar 23, 2010
  11. Eli BarzilayMar 23, 2010
  12. Jeff KingMar 23, 2010
  13. Erik Faye-LundMar 23, 2010
  14. Eli BarzilayMar 23, 2010

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