Re: git log missing last line of output

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: May 27, 2009, 15:42 UTC
Message-ID: <4A1D5F70.4030101@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <gvhrtf$vpr$1@ger.gmane.org>

Neal Kreitzinger venit, vidit, dixit 27.05.2009 00:57:

> Git log is not displaying the last line of output (for a plain "$ git log" 
> the last line of output should be the title line of the initial commit).

It should be the last line of the commit message, which is the "title line" (subject) if and only if the message consists of the subject line only.

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> (I'm using git 1.5.5.6 on rhel 5.3.)  This missing last line also occurs 
> with "git log --since" in which the last line of output should be the title 
> line of the first commit after the specified date, but it is missing in this 
> scenario also.  I've searched the release notes for 1.5.6 thru 1.6.3.1 and 
> did not find this mentioned.  Does this also happen in newer versions of git 
> after 1.5.5.6?

I can't reproduce this with git 1.5.5.6 (vanilla, not rhel). Do you have a minimal reproducible test case?

Michael